New Delhi: On Thursday, Bureaucrat – Politician Ashwini Vaishnaw took over the ministry of IT, electronics and communication.
Vaishnaw, which was appointed in the United Cabinet on Wednesday, will also become a new train minister.
Ashwini Vaishnaw is a passout IIT Kanpur.
He cracked IAS in 1994 with the rank of all India and worked as a collector in the Balalasore and Cuttack districts in Odisha until 2003.
He, then, served as Deputy Secretary at the office of the former PM Bihari Vajpayee.
He is also the Deputy Chair of the Trust of Port of Mormugao for two years.
Vaishnaw holds a degree from Wharton Business School, and has joined transportation as Managing Director and Vice President Siemens.
In 2012, he carried out leaps on entrepreneurship and established a manufacturing unit of automotive components in Gujarat.
A member of the BJP Rajya Sabha from Odisha since 2019, Vaishnaw made into the Union Cabinet without the duty as Minister of State, replaced the Senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad in Meyity and the Ministry of Communication.
“We are very pleased that Vaishnav has been appointed as a minister of cabinet in the union ministry.
He did his MTech from Iit-Kanpur in 1994, and overlap with me at Hall 4 (student residence).
We are very proud of the Alumni Institute.
Has been appointed In the Union cabinet as the train minister “, said Director, IIT Kanpur, professor Abhay Karandikar.
After assuming costs, Vaishnaw thanked PM Modi, “I thank the honorable Prime Minister for the great opportunity he had given me to serve the nation.
Telecommunications, it and train.
There are many synergy in three and I will work to make sure.
that his vision is implemented.
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Ashwini Vaishnaw took over as IT & Communication Minister: All you need to know
