Party Name : Indian National Congress
Constituency : Eluru
State : Andhra Pradesh
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 5 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 15
Father's Name : Shri Raghavaiah
Mother's Name :
Date of birth : 02 Oct 1943
Profession : Agriculturist Engineer, Industrialist, Political and Social Worker
Positions held :
1984 Elected to 8th Lok Sabha1985 Joint-Secretary, All India Congress Committee (I) [A.I.C.C.(I)]Member, A.I.C.C.1985-87 Member, Committee on Subordinate Legislation1985-89 Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Finance1987-89 Member, Committee on Estimates1989 Re-elected to 9th Lok Sabha (2nd term)1989-90 Member, House Committee1989-94 General-Secretary, Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC)1990-91 Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Finance1998 Vice-President, A.P.C.C.1998 Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (3rd term)1998-99 Member, Committee on FinanceMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Surface Transport2004 Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha (4th term)2004-07 Member, Committee on Estimates2004-09 Member, Committee on FinanceMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural GasMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Power2006-07 Member, Rules Committee2007-09 Member, Committee on Public Accounts2009 Re-elected to 15th Lok Sabha (5th term)Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of EnergyMember, Committe on Public AccountsMember, Committee on Energy2010 Member, Co-Ordination Committee, Andhra Pradesh17 Jun. 2013 Union Cabinet Minister, Textiles
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Social And Cultural Activities
Welfare of the poor; provision of drinking water facilities by digging borewell in villages and construction of community halls in slum areas; donated a building to Andhra Mahila Sabha for a Cardiac Cathedrisation Unit; running charitable institutions for providing good education to the rural poor and for imparting professional skills to the unemployed youth;
Favourite Pastime and Recreation
Reading and social service
Countries Visited
Widely travelled (40 countries); (i) Indian Delegation to U.N. General Assembly, 1987;(ii) Delegation of Friends of Soviet Union, 1987;and (iii) A.I.C.C. Delegation, China, 1991; Leader, Delegation of CIDC to China, 2007;President, Delegation of Network of Parliamentarians of World Bank (India Group) Conference to Paris, 2008;Member (i) Delegation of Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development, 2005; (ii) Speaker`s Delegation to China, 2006; (iii) Delegation of IPC to Vietnam, 2006; (iv) Delegation of Indo-Korean Frendship Association of Parliamentarians to DPRK, 2007; (v)Delegation of Network of Parliamentarians of World Bank to South Africa, 2007; (vi)Delegation of Parliamentrians for Global Action to Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2007; (vii) Delegation of Parliamentarians for Global Action to Abuja, Nigeria, 2007; (viii) India-Iran Parliamentary Friendship Group; (ix)India-Iraq Parliamentary Friendship Group; (x) Parliamentarian meet on Climate Change at Buenos Aires, Argentina; (xi) Washington Energy Summit, 2009; (xii) Washington India-USA-Germany summit, 2009
Other Information
Chairman (i) Kavuru Charitable Trust, Gudivada; (ii) Progressive Educational Trust, Hyderabad; and (iii) Oldage Home, Hyderabad; President/Patron of several Trade Unions/Employees Associations; Director, Andhra Bank, 1982-84; Member, (i) Board of School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, 1985-87; (ii) Court of Hyderabad University; (iii) Tobacco Board; (iv) Board of Salarjung Museum, Hyderabad; (v) Informal Consultative Committee, South Central Railway Zones; (vi) Court of Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1998-99; and (vii) All India Council of Technical Education (A.I.C.T.E.), 1998-99; set up institutes on science and technology, research and management etc.; engaged in construcntion of major irrigation and power projects and multi-storied urban housing complexes, etc.
