Minister of Railways; Commerce and Industry; Consumer Affairs and Food and Public Distribution
NAME – Piyush Vedprakash Goyal
PROFESSION- Politician and Chartered Accountant
BORN – 13th June 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH – Mumbai, Maharashtra
FATHER’S NAME – Late Vedprakash Goyal
MOTHER’S NAME – Late Chandrakanta Goyal
SPOUSE- Seema Goyal
SIBLINGS- 1 brother
CHILDREN- 2(1 daughter and 1 son)
EDUCATION –
Schooling from Don Bosco High School, Matunga, Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Bachelor of Commerce, H.R. College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Bachelor of Law, Government Law College, Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Chartered Accountant, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI).
POLITICAL PARTY- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
OFFICIAL WEBSITE- www.piyushgoyal.in
REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT- Under his leadership, Indian Railways achieve its best-ever safety record in the year 2018- 2019.
AWARDS- Carnot Prize by the University of Pennsylvania for pathbreaking transformations in India’s energy sector.
Piyush Goyal is the current Minister of Railways; Commerce and Industry; Consumer Affairs and Food and Public Distribution. He is a member of Bharatiya Janta Party.
BACKGROUND- Piyush Goyal was born to Late Vedprakash Goyal, an Indian politician and the Union Minister of shipping in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in India from 2001 to 2003 and also a member of the Rajya Sabha, his mother Late Chandrakanta Goyal a politician from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and three times member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.
He is married to Seema Goyal an active social worker and has two children – Dhruv and Radhika, who have both graduated from Harvard University, USA.
UPBRINGING & EDUCATION- Piyush Goyal hails from Mumbai, Maharashtra. He did his schooling at Don Bosco High School, Matunga, Mumbai, Maharashtra, and Bachelor of Commerce from H.R. College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is also a law graduate from Government Law College, Mumbai, Maharashtra. He was an all-India second rank holder in the CA Final exam of Chartered Accountancy.
WALK OF LIFE– Piyush Goyal started his political as a member of the Standing Committee on Finance and the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Defence. He was an active member of the Managing Committee of the Indian Merchants Chamber. He was National Executive and National Treasurer in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he has been representing Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha since 2010. He was Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power, Coal, New, and Renewable Energy from the year 2014 to 2017. He became the Minister of Railways from the year 2017 to 2019. Mr. Goyal was given an additional charge of Finance Minister in the year 2018 due to Late Arun Jaitley’s ailment.
From the year 2019, he continued in the position of Minister of Railways and was also the Minister of Commerce and Industry. In October 2020, he was given the additional charge of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs Food & Public Distribution.
MAJOR INITIATIVES TAKEN- During his tenure, The transformational changes in India’s power sector took place by LED bulb distribution program (UJALA) for energy efficiency, and massive proliferation of renewable energy through the world’s largest renewable energy expansion program and also most comprehensive power sector reform ever (UDAY) took place.
CAREER TIMELINE-
2010- Member of Rajya Sabha.
2014 to 2017– Minister of State for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy
2016- Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Mines.
2017 to present- Minister of Railways
2018- Minister of Finance.
2019 to present- Ministry of Commerce and Industry
2019- Deputy Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha.
2020- Minister of Consumer Affairs Food and Public Distribution.
CONTROVERSIES- In April 2018, Shirdi industries whose Chairman was Mr. Goyal until July 2010 and later on headed by his wife Seema Goyal had unpaid loans of ₹650 crores and in the year 2015 it was declared as Non-performing assets, and loans were written off. Several leaders demanded an inquiry why the company’s loans were written-off.