Prithviraj Chavan
Portfolio: Minister of State for Science and Technology; Earth Sciences and Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office; Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Parliamentary Affairs (Independent Charge)
Date of birth: March 17, 1946
Party: Indian National Congress
Chavan represents Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha. An intellectual politician, Chavan is idealistic and a thorough professional. He was Minister of State in the Prime Ministers Office. Although Chavan belongs to a political family, both his parents were MPs from Karad in Maharashtra and his father a minister in Jawaharlal Nehru's Cabinet. He studied at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and having qualified as a design engineer, got a UNESCO fellowship to study in Germany. He is also an MS from the University of California in Berkeley. Chavan came to the Rajya Sabha in 2002.
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