Suresh Prabhu

Mr Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu (born 11 July 1953) is an Indian politician and the current Railway Minister of India, under the Narendra Modi government.[1] He is a Chartered Accountant by profession and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Since 1996, Prabhu has been a repeatedly elected Member of Parliament from Rajapur Lok Sabha constituency in Maharashtra as a member of the Shiv Sena (SS) political party. He quit Shiv Sena and joined BJP on 9 November 2014.[2] He currently represents Andhra Pradesh in Upper House of Indian Parliament.

Education and career

Suresh Prabhu completed his high school from Sharadashram Vidya Mandir, Dadar, Mumbai, followed by a Bachelor in Commerce with Honours from M.L. Dahanukar College, Vile Parle, Mumbai.[3] He received a Bachelor in Law degree from the New Law College (Ruparel College campus), Mumbai.[4] Prabhu is a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He was All India 11th (eleventh) rank holder in CA exam.[3][5][6]

Prabhu has held several government and semi government positions, which includes chairmanship of Maharashtra State Finance Commission, Saraswat Co-operative Bank, Member of the Maharashtra Tourism Development Board, among others. Prabhu has travelled to more than 100 countries. He is working on 16 global organizations and 9 strategic dialogues.

Paper Publications

Political career

He was, at various times during the Premiership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee of 1998 to 2004, Industry Minister, Minister of Environment and Forests, Minister of Fertilizers & Chemicals, Power, Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises. As the Union Minister for Power, he won praise for his performance.[2] As Minister of Power, Prabhu introduced major reforms in India's power sector.[9] He is credited with championing and enacting The Electricity Act, 2003 and the reforms that created securitization of dues from the states. He has been elected four times to the Lok Sabha, India's parliament, from Maharashtra since 1996.[2] However, he lost his seat in the 2009 general election.

He was also Chairman of Task Force for Interlinking of Rivers with a status and rank of Union Cabinet Minister.[2] He was elected a member of the World Bank parliamentary network and chaired the South Asia Water regional group of the World Bank.[10]

Asia week rated him as one of three future leaders of India.[11] As a mark of protest against the cancellation of Narendra Modi's keynote address at the Wharton India Economic Forum 2013, he called off his visit to the University.[2] The NDA government under the leadership of Narendra Modi appointed him as the head of a high-level panel on power revamp — "Advisory Group for Integrated Development of Power, Coal and Renewable Energy" in July 2014.[12]

On 9 November 2014, he was sworn-in as Cabinet minister in Narendra Modi government. He is currently the Union Railway Minister of India.[13] He is the only Railway Minister who introduced railway budget without launching a single train and more focused on facilities during fiscal year 2015-2016.

He is closely associated with Parliamentary Committees [14]

  • Chairman, Indo - German Parliamentary Forum
  • Chairman, Parliamentary Forum on Environment
  • Chairman, Parliamentary Maritime Group
  • Chairman, Co-operative Forum of Parliamentarians
  • Indo - US Parliamentary Forum
  • Indo - UK Parliamentary Forum
  • Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry External Affairs
  • Member, Public Accounts Committee
  • Member, Joint Parliamentary Committee to draft Women's Reservation Bill
  • Parliamentary Standing Committee and Consultative committee on Finance
  • Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
  • Chairman, forum against fake drugs
  • Executive Member of Indo-UK and Indo-EU Japanese Parliamentary Forum
  • Member Wildlife first
  • Co-Chairman of Indo-Japanese
  • Forum of Water
  • Chairman Parliamentary Forum on Renewable Energy
  • Co-Chairman, Indo-Japan Parliamentary Forum
  • Indo-Singapore Public Forum
  • Indo-EU Parliamentary Forum
  • Member-Core Group-on AIDS

He was elected as Rajya Sabha member on 3 June 2016.[15]

Social Work

He runs an NGO - Manav Sadhan Vikas Sanstha(MSVS) which is working towards empowerment of people. Formed in 1998 as a public charitable trust, MSVS seeks to bring about a holistic development of communities through proactive participation of both governmental and non-governmental stakeholders. It helps integrate economic, social, physical, ecological, intellectual and spiritual aspects in its developmental strategy in a holistic manner, thereby providing a greater meaning to the life of the members of society. He is currently holding below positions as a part of social work - [16]

  • Director, Saraswat Co-operation Bank. (former Chairman)
  • Actional Co-operative Union of India
  • Chairman, Manav Sadhan Vikas Sansthan, a NGO
  • Chairman, Konkan Kala academy
  • Vice-Chairman, Trustee, Mumbai Marathi Granth Sangrahalaya
  • Chairman, Adult Education Institute
  • Chairman, Maharashtra State Table Tennis Academy
  • Trustee, Khar Residents Association
  • Trustee, Manavendra Charitable hospital
  • Trustee, IFFCO Foundation
  • Vice-President, Table Tennis Federation of India

Personal life

He is married to journalist Uma Prabhu; they have a son, Ameya Prabhu.

Suresh Prabhu currently resides in Delhi and is a native of Medha - Malvan (District - Sindhudurg) Maharashtra.

Awards

He received the Goud Saraswat Brahmin Samaj Maharatha Award on 18 August 2016.[17][18]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Portfolios of the Union Council of Ministers Prime Minister's Office, Government of India
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Suresh Prabhu returns to the Cabinet Indian Express (9 November 2014)
  3. 1 2 Suresh Prabhu Biodata India, Accessed on 10 November 2014
  4. ↑ "Cabinet reshuffle: Modi government's got talent but is it being fully utilised?", The Economic Times, 10 July 2016
  5. ↑ http://zeenews.india.com/home/shri-suresh-p-prabhu_634229.html
  6. ↑ http://www.nias.res.in/docs/CV-Suresh-Prabhu.pdf
  7. ↑ Suresh Prabhu
  8. ↑ About me
  9. ↑ Narendra Modi finds a reform partner in Suresh Prabhu LiveMint (9 November 2014)
  10. ↑ Annual Conference of the Parliamentary Network of World Bank Cape Town, The World Bank (2007)
  11. ↑ "Executive briefing - Suresh Prabhu". 30 August 2000. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  12. ↑ "Suresh Prabhu to head panel on power". 2 July 2014.
  13. ↑ Suresh Prabhu says PM wants condition of railways to change, Parrikar seeks time to get going The Times of India (10 November 2014)
  14. ↑ Association With Parliamentary Committees
  15. ↑ "Rajya Sabha election: Suresh Prabhu, Ram Jethmalani, Lalu's daughter elected", India Today, 3 June 2016
  16. ↑ Social work
  17. ↑ "Rly. Minister Suresh Prabhu gets Maharatha Award", The Hindu, 19 August 2016
  18. ↑ "GSB Maharatna Award for Suresh Prabhu", The Times of India, 19 August 2016
Lok Sabha
Preceded by
Sudhir Sawant		 Member of Parliament
for Rajapur
1996–2009 		Succeeded by
Constituency merged into
Ratnagiri–Sindhudurg constituency
Nilesh Narayan Rane
Political offices
Preceded by
P R Kumaramangalam		 Minister of Power
30 September 2000 - 24 August 2002 		Succeeded by
Anant Geete
Preceded by
D. V. Sadananda Gowda		 Minister of Railways
2014 – Present 		Succeeded by
Incumbent

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