Join Jairam Ramesh in a Google Hangout on March 27 The Indian National Congress (INC) in association with Google is organizing a hangout with one of the most dynamic, charismatic and eloquent leaders of the party Shri Jairam Ramesh, union minister for rural development at 6 pm on March 27. Born and raised in the coffee heartland of the country, Chikmagalur, Jairam Ramesh has been successfully donning multiple roles as an economist, strategist, politician, political campaigner and columnist, under the pen-name Kautilya. Ramesh is an MP from Adilabad District in Andhra Pradesh since June 2004. He was elevated to the Union Council of Minister of India. He was previously minister of state with the ministry of environment and forests from May 2009 to July 2011. Ramesh has been strongly influenced and fascinated by Jawaharlal Nehru’s modern approach to life, his bringing change in a traditional society and his liberal, humanist, rational approach to life, religion and civic matters, since his childhood. He considers himself a product of the Nehruvian era. He read American and Swedish economists Paul Samuelson and Gunnar Myrdal. Myrdal’s Asian Drama was very influential to Rameshs understanding of development planning in India. Ramesh graduated from IIT Bombay in mechanical engineering. He also studied in Carnegie Mellon University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked with the World Bank and Planning Commission of India. In 1990, he worked as an Officer on Special Duty during the National Front administration of the VP Singh government. He re-organised Indias international trade agencies in 1990 and was advisor to the Prime Minister in 1991. In 1991 he worked with finance minister Manmohan Singh. He also served as secretary the All India Congress Committee. Being part of the National Advisory Council of the Congress Party, he played an active role in putting together UPAs National Common Minimum Programme in 2004. In February 2009, he led the partys Poll Strategy Panel after relinquishing himself from two of his ministerial portfolios, power and commerce and Industry. He later became minister for environment and forest with independent charge. He was the chief negotiator for India at the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Copenhagen in 2009.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:22:46 +0000
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