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M S GILL

Dr M.S. Gill is the new minister of Youth Affairs and Sports in  Manmohan Singh’s new government. He was also served as the minister of state for the ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports for a short period in outgoing  Manmohan Singh’s government. He is the former Chief Election Commissioner of India and also MP representing Punjab in the Rajya Sabha. As a minister, he said the he would give priorities to restore the dignity of sportsmen and also work for the less fortunate players. He also said that the pension to sportsmen would be raised. Also beautiful and light weight trophies would be given to winners.

BIOGRAPHY

Politician M.S. Gill was born on 14th June, 1936 in Punjab as the son of Col. Pratap Singh Gill and Smt Niranjan Kaur. He is the holder of M.A., Ph.D., Diploma in Development Studies. He is also a IAS officer. He is married to Smt Vinnie Gill and they have three daughters. In 1996, he was elected as the Election Commissioner and became the first IAS officer to be trained in mountaineering. He hold many positions inluding Deputy Commissioner and Collector of Lahaul and Spiti, collector and deputy commissioner of districts Ambala and Jalandhar, principal secretary to the chief minister of Punjab, development commissioner of Punjab, secretary of department of chemicals, petro-chemicals and pharmaceuticals, Government of India, secretary of ministry of agriculture and cooperatives, Government of India, election Commissioner of India, chief election commissioner of India, elected to Rajya Sabha, member of committee on agriculture permanent special invitee, etc. He was actively involved in the green revolution in Punjab. He played a important role to promote Indian sports in 1969 Mexico Olympics. He is the author of many books including ‘An Indian Success Story: Agriculture and Cooperatives in Punjab’, ‘Himalayan Wonderland: Travels in Lahaul - Spiti’, ‘Folk Tales of Lahaul’, ‘An Assessment of the Green Revolution in India’, ‘Elections in India - Major Events and New Initiatives’ etc. He was honored by many awards. Indian government honored him by giving “Padma Vibhushan”in 2000. He is also gained “Dadabhai Naoroji New Millenium International Award”for lifetime achievement and service to India, “Nishan-e-Khalsa”, the recognition of the Sikh people on the 300th anniversary of the Sikh faith and “Honorary Fellow”, Queens’ College, Cambridge.

DAYANIDHI MARAN

DMK leader Dayanidhi Maran is the new Textiles minister in the new government of India. He was the minister of Communications and IT in the previous Manmohan Singh’s government. He is also a a member of parliament in India’s 15th Lok Sabha from Chennai Central constituency. Also he is a millionaire of India.

BIOGRAPHY

Dayanidhi Maran was born on 5th December, 1966, Kumbakonam, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. He is from the famous family of Tamil Nadu. He is the son of famous DMK leader Late Mr.Murasoli Maran and the grandnephew of DMK president M Karunanidhi. Also he is the younger brother of Kalanidhi Maran, the founder and managing director of Sun Network. He is married to Priya Dayanidhi Maran and they have three children. He gained his school education from Don Bosco Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Egmore, Chennai and  graduation in Economics from Loyola College in Chennai. He also attended many educational programmes and courses including the “Owner /President Management Programme” (OPM) from Harvard Business School in Boston, United Sates of America. Early days, Dayanidhi Maran was involved in his brother’s business. At that time he was also worked as a amateur radio operator. He came into the politics after the death of her father. In 2004 Lok Sabha elections, he was contested as a DMK candidate from Central Chennai Constituency in Chennai in the State of Tamil Nadu and elected as a member of parliament. He was also appointed as union minister for Communications and Information Technology from 2004 to May 2007. As a minister, he reduced the mobile and land line call rates. He took many important steps to make India as a chip manufacturing hub and growth of internet subscribers were also increased at that time. He resigned from this post due to the fallout between Dr.Karunanithi’s family and the Maran brothers. He is a voracious reader and traveled in many countries and attended various seminars, conference which enabled him to get knowledge about the fields of media, television, cable technology, political economy and management. He is also a lover of sports especially golf, cricket and tennis.