Jairam Ramesh

Trivia

• Jairam Ramesh has also anchored a number of popular television programmes on business and the economy including Business Breakfast and Crossfire.
• He has been a columnist under the pen-name Kautilya in The Times of India and is the author of the book 'Making Sense of Chindia'.
• Jairam Ramesh also serves on the eminent persons group of the Union Ministry of Power and other key government committees.
• As recognition of his contributions to development, Ramesh was invited to serve on the Economic Advisory Council of Andhra Pradesh.
• Ramesh was active in formulating and implementing India's economic reforms in 1991 and 1997.
• Jairam Ramesh is a member of three committees of Parliament—the Public Accounts Committee, the Standing Committee on Finance and the Committee on Government Assurances.
• Following his 2009 election to the Indian parliament, Ramesh was given independent charge of Environment and Forests as Minister of State in the Congress-led administration.
• In 2009, with the 15th Lok Sabha elections approaching, Jairam Ramesh was tapped to lead the party's Poll Strategy Panel. At that time he resigned his post as Minister of State for Commerce and Power.
• Jairam Ramesh's political career is said to have begun in 1989-90, as an IAS "Officer on Special Duty" during the National Front administration. In recent years he has advised Sonia Gandhi, leader of the Congress party.
• In 2001, IIT Bombay presented him their Distinguished Alumnus Award.