Pawan Kumar Bansal
| Pawan Kumar Bansal | |
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| पवन कुमार बंसल | |
Former Union minister Pawan Kumar Bansal
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| Minister of Railways | |
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In office October 28, 2012 – May 10, 2013 |
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| Prime Minister | Manmohan Singh |
| Preceded by | C. P. Joshi |
| Succeeded by | C. P. Joshi |
| Minister of Parliamentary Affairs | |
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In office May 28, 2009 – October 28, 2012 |
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| Prime Minister | Manmohan Singh |
| Preceded by | Ghulam Nabi Azad |
| Succeeded by | Kamal Nath |
| Member of the Indian Parliament for Chandigarh |
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In office 1999–2014 |
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| Preceded by | Satya Pal Jain |
| Succeeded by | Kirron Kher |
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In office 1991–1996 |
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| Preceded by | Harmohan Dhawan |
| Succeeded by | Satya Pal Jain |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
16 July 1948 Sunam, Sangrur district, Punjab |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Political party | Congress |
| Spouse(s) | Madhu Bansal |
| Children | 2 sons |
| Residence | Chandigarh |
| Religion | Hinduism |
| As of 28 May, 2009 | |
Pawan Kumar Bansal (born 16 July 1948) is an Indian National Congress politician and a former minister in the Manmohan Singh government. He represented Chandigarh constituency in the 15th Lok Sabha of India. He served as Minister of Railways from 28 October 2012 to 10 May 2013.
Bansal was born on 16 July 1948 in Sunam. His family hailed from Tapa, Punjab. He went to school at the Yadavindra Public School, Patiala, and did BSc from the Government College, Sector 11, Chandigarh. He also holds an LLB degree from the Department of Law, Panjab University, Chandigarh.
Bansal has represented Chandigarh as a member of Parliament in the 10th, 13th, 14th and 15th Lok Sabha. He has worked as the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and the Minister of Water Resources in the current Lok Sabha. He also held the charge of the Minister of State for Finance and Parliamentary Affairs in the First Manmohan Singh Cabinet.
He took over as the Railway Minister, becoming the first from his party since 1996. Soon after becoming Railways minister, he approved an increase in fares, which had been unchanged for the last 15 years, to allow the Indian Railways to be profitable. He contested the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections from Chandigarh.
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