Dharmendra Pradhan is an Indian politician serving as the Minister of Education and Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship in the Government of India.
15 Facts About Dharmendra Pradhan
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Shri Dharmendra Pradhan currently represents Madhya Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha as Member of Parliament.
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Dharmendra Pradhan started his political career as an Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad activist in 1983 and was elected as its secretary.
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Dharmendra Pradhan holds a post-graduate degree in Anthropology from Utkal University in Bhubaneswar.
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Dharmendra Pradhan was elected the member of the Rajya Sabha for two terms each from Bihar and Madhya Pradesh.
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Dharmendra Pradhan has been the longest serving Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas in the history of independent India.
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Dharmendra Pradhan has led some key decisions in the hydrocarbon sector.
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Dharmendra Pradhan led consumer initiatives like PAHAL which is the world's largest Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme and the Give It Up campaign, that was liberally supported by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, aimed at encouraging affluent citizens to surrender their LPG subsidy for the needy receiving a successful response of 10 million consumers.
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Dharmendra Pradhan has provided leadership to efforts around making India, a gas-based economy.
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Dharmendra Pradhan has underlined that India is going to chart its own path of energy transition which will balance India's energy demand and decarbonisation efforts.
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Dharmendra Pradhan launched Mission Purvodaya in steel sector to drive transformation of eastern India through the growth of steel industry which has majority presence in eastern India.
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Dharmendra Pradhan brought in new paradigms in the regulatory environment by mooting National Council for Vocational Education and Training as new unified national reg IBM, Adobe etc.
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Dharmendra Pradhan launched one of the world's largest counselling programs named Skill Saathi.
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In May 2019, Dharmendra Pradhan continued his Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and got the Ministry of Steel.
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In July 2021, Dharmendra Pradhan became Minister of Education in Second Modi ministry after the Cabinet reshuffle replacing Ramesh Pokhriyal.