11 Facts About Amar Patnaik

Amar Patnaik opted for voluntary retirement, nine years before completion of his service and joined Biju Janata Dal in the presence of party president and CM Naveen Patnaik on 29 August 2018.

Amar Patnaik was a member of the Joint Committee of Parliament on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 and the ad-hoc Committee of Rajya Sabha to study the issue of pornography on social media and its effect on children and society as a whole.

Amar Patnaik is currently a member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Bio-diversity Bill, 2021.

Amar Patnaik graduated from St Stephen's College, Delhi at Delhi University in 1987 in Physics after initial schooling in the Demonstration Multipurpose School, Bhubaneswar and the Buxi Jagabandhu Bidyadhar College, Bhubaneswar.

Amar Patnaik was awarded the Delhi University Gold Medal for being adjudged the best student in Physics in the year 1987.

Amar Patnaik further pursued a Master's degree in Public Management from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore and the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2010.

Amar Patnaik was offered the British Chevening Gurukul Scholarship for Excellence at the London School of Economics by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the British Government in 2013.

Amar Patnaik's thesis was published as a book by Palgrave Macmillan titled Institutional Change and Power Asymmetries in the context of Rural India in 2016.

Amar Patnaik joined the Indian Civil Services in 1990 under its Indian Audit and Accounts Services.

Amar Patnaik joined the Biju Janta Dal, a regional party in the state of Odisha in August 2018 and was inducted by the Chief Minister and Party president Naveen Patnaik.

In June 2019, Amar Patnaik was nominated by the party as the state representative and Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Indian parliament.