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Mangapati Pallam Raju
Minister of State for Defence
An alumnus of the Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet, Mangapati Pallam Raju is an electronics & communications engineering graduate from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam and an MBA from Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. He worked in Philadelphia and Boston in the US and in Oslo, Norway, in the field of computers and information technology. He has a political lineage with his grandfather, the late Mallipudi Pallam Raju, being a freedom fighter and his father, M.S. Sanjeevi Rao, being a Union Minister in the Government of India from 1982 to 1984.
He was first elected to the Indian Parliament in 1989 and was the youngest MP in the ninth Lok Sabha. He has served as a Director on the boards of Indian Airlines and Air India during 1994-1997. He is a successful entrepreneur in the field of information technology, and was on the boards of a few very successful public limited companies until his induction into the Union Council of Ministers. He has been a very active member of the Indian National Congress and has held several important positions in the state unit and at the national level. At present, he is a Member of Parliament (15th Lok Sabha).
Pradeep Kumar Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar took over as Secretary (Defence Production) in the Ministry of Defence on January 1, 2008 and as Defence Secretary in August 2009. A Haryana cadre officer of the 1972 batch of the Indian Administrative Service, Kumar is a graduate in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and masters in economics and social studies from the University of Wales, UK. Being a veteran in the field of public administration, he has held many senior positions at the state and national levels. He served as Director of Industries, Principal Secretary, Power Irrigation, Science and
Technology, Town and Country Planning and Urban Estates departments in the Government of Haryana. At the national level, he has held the appointments of Joint Secretary in the Department of Heavy Industry, Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Coal, Chairman, National Highways Authority of India and Secretary (Disinvestment) in the Ministry of Finance. Pradeep Kumar has served on the boards of a number of leading companies including Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd, Maruti Udyog Ltd, Andrew Yule Ltd, Hindustan Paper Corporation Ltd, Coal India Ltd and Nyvelli Lignite Corporation Ltd.
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