Minister of Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) in Government of Rajasthan.
NAME – Balaki Das Kalla
PROFESSION– Politician
BORN – 04/10/1949
PLACE OF BIRTH – Bikaner, Rajasthan
FATHER’S NAME – Pushkarna Brahmin
MOTHER’S NAME – Giridhari Lal Kalla
SPOUSE – Shiv Kumari Kalla
SIBLINGS – N/A
CHILDREN – 4
EDUCATION –
B.Sc. from Govt. Dangur College Bikaner, Rajasthan University Jaipur
MA (Economics) from Dangur College Bikaner, Rajasthan University Jaipur
LL.B. degree from Dangur College Bikaner, Rajasthan University Jaipur
Ph.D. from Govt. Dangur College Bikaner, Rajasthan University Jaipur
POLITICAL AFFILIATIONS/PARTY– Indian National Congress
OFFICIAL WEBSITE – https://web.archive.org/web/20140517065909/http://drbdkalla.org/
REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT– N/A
AWARDS – N/A
BACKGROUND –
Balaki Das Kalla was born on 04/10/1949 in Bikaner,Rajasthan. He is Philomath who has some unsual combination of degrees. He had done B.Sc, MA(Economics), LL.B., Ph.D. from the Dangur College Bikaner, Rajasthan University Jaipur.
He married Shiv Kumari Kalla and has 4 children ( 2 sons and 2 daughters). His sustained efforts to contribute to the development of Bikaner are nothing less than brilliant. He would always be concerned to bring in opportunities, prospects of future development, and a sound infrastructural platform upon which the region is making a quantum leap in overall development and improvement of life of common man.
He is the incumbent minister of Public Health Engineering Department, Ground Water, Art, Culture & Archeology departments in the Government of Rajasthan.
B.D. Kalla started his career as a lecturer in B.J.S. Rampuriya College in Bikaner. He turned towards politics and served as an MLA from Bikaner constituency in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. He won Rajasthn Assembly Elections 5 times i.e. in 1980, 1985, 1990, 1998, and 2003.
He served as the Minister for Secondary Education from 1990 till 2003. He did complete justice to his position with his previous experience in the education sector. He became the Leader of the Opposition party from 2004 to 2006 and remained an active member of the Indian National Congress in Rajasthan Legislative Assembly.
He was also appointed as the President of the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee & Chairman of the 4th Finance Commission.
MAJOR INITIATIVES-
When B.D. Kalla became the President of the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee, he ran a massive Public Awareness Campaign spanning for almost four months, covering the entire state, convening 31 huge public meetings, contacting with the public directly, listening to them and taking their voices to the house and assuring justice for the people of the state.
He was able to create pressure that the state government had no other option but to take appropriate actions, however small, to make life easier for the general public.
CAREER TIMELINE/ POSITIONS HELD –
1974 – lecturer in B.J.S. Rampuriya College in Bikaner
1980 – Elected as an MLA in the Rajasthan Legislative
1985 – Elected as an MLA in the Rajasthan Legislative
1990 – Minister for Secondary Education of Rajasthan
2005 – President of Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee
2018- Appointed as Minister of Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) Minister in Rajasthan government
CONTROVERSIES/CASES-
In November 2018, Indian National Congress announced its first list of candidates & B.D. Kalla’s name was not in it. The supporters of Kalla took it offensively which caused political turmoil in Bikaner and Congress leadership took note of it, hence allocating ticket to Dr.Kalla from Bikaner West Constituency.