L to R: Kapil Sibal Senior Advocate and Member, Rajya Sabha : Sameer Kochhar, Chairman, SKOCH Group
L to R: Kapil Sibal Senior Advocate and Member, Rajya Sabha : Sameer Kochhar, Chairman, SKOCH Group
Kapil Sibal
Senior Advocate & Member, Rajya Sabha
He wears several hats, lawyer, politician and a poet. He was especially noted for his service as a cabinet minister in the Congress-led UPA government. He was the Additional Solicitor General of India during 1989-90. In 1994, he was the only lawyer to appear in the Parliament and successfully defended a Supreme Court judge during impeachment proceedings.
Between 1995 and 2002 he served three times as the President of India’s Supreme Court Bar Association. He has made a reputation for himself as a lawyer who defended individual rights against the government. His first cabinet-level assignments were in 2006 when he took on the portfolios for both Science and Technology and Ocean Development.
In 2009, he became the Minister for Human Resource Development and the following year, under his initiative, the Parliament passed a law that required the government to provide free elementary education to all children between the ages of 6 and 14 and Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) system in India for Classes IX and X to prevent stress among students. In 2011, he was also made minister for Communications and Information Technology, continuing in that dual role until he relinquished the human resources development component in late 2012.
Kapil Sibal Senior Advocate and Member, Rajya Sabha
Kapil Sibal: A graduate of Harvard Law School, lawyer turned politician Kapil Sibal is not only known for his versatility but also for his ability to multi-task. He is the only lawyer in India to have had the privilege of addressing Parliament in 1993, in the historic impeachment proceedings of a sitting Judge of the Supreme Court.
He is a born reformer, seeking to guide the destiny of millions of children in India. He holds dual charge of the Ministries of Human Resource Development and Communications & IT. For his passion and relentless efforts in 2010, he was conferred the prestigious Stephen P. Duggan Award for Mutual Understanding, in New York, USA and the ET Business Reformer of the Year, in New Delhi.
The ‘Akash’ tablet, a low-cost access device, which he launched recenty nashing less than a technological revolution. He Avalved, in laying the communication, infrastructure the country to allow digital content to flow seamlessly reaching millions.
In his previous stint as Minister for Science & Technology he visited the Indian Station ‘Maitri’ in Antarctica in February 2004, thus becoming the first ever Member of Parliament to do so. He is also responsible for setting up the first Indian Research Station in the Arctic.
A Member of Parliament since 1998, he was elected trom the Lok Sabha Parliamentary Constituency of Chandni Chowk for two consecutive terms, in 2004 and 2009. representing the Indian National Congress. My World Within is his second book of poetry.
Kapil Sibal: A graduate of Harvard Law School, lawyer turned politician Kapil Sibal is not only known for his versatility but also for his ability to multi-task. He is the only lawyer in India to have had the privilege of addressing Parliament in 1993, in the historic impeachment proceedings of a sitting Judge of the Supreme Court.
He is a born reformer, seeking to guide the destiny of millions of children in India. He holds dual charge of the Ministries of Human Resource Development and Communications & IT. For his passion and relentless efforts in 2010, he was conferred the prestigious Stephen P. Duggan Award for Mutual Understanding, in New York, USA and the ET Business Reformer of the Year, in New Delhi.
The ‘Akash’ tablet, a low-cost access device, which he launched recenty nashing less than a technological revolution. He Avalved, in laying the communication, infrastructure the country to allow digital content to flow seamlessly reaching millions.
In his previous stint as Minister for Science & Technology he visited the Indian Station ‘Maitri’ in Antarctica in February 2004, thus becoming the first ever Member of Parliament to do so. He is also responsible for setting up the first Indian Research Station in the Arctic.
A Member of Parliament since 1998, he was elected trom the Lok Sabha Parliamentary Constituency of Chandni Chowk for two consecutive terms, in 2004 and 2009. representing the Indian National Congress. My World Within is his second book of poetry.
Kapil Sibal Senior Advocate and Member, Rajya Sabha
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