First Information Technology Minister of India?

Answer 1

Shri Kapil Sibal
Biographical Sketch
Father's Name Shri Hira Lal Sibal
Date of Birth August 8, 1948
Place of Birth Jullundur, Punjab
Marital Status Married on April 13, 1973
Now Widower
Spouse’s Name Late Nina Sibal
Children Two sons
Educational Qualifications M.A. (History) from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, Delhi.
L.L.M., Harvard Law School, USA
Profession Senior Advocate
Address AB-7, Purana Qila Road,
New Delhi-110 001
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Position Held
December 1989 – December 1990: Additional Solicitor General of India
1995-96,1997-98 and 2001-2002: President, Supreme Court Bar Association.
July 1998: Elected to Rajya Sabha.
July 2001: Member, Executive Council, Institute of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies.
August 2001: Member, Business Advisory Committee.
January 2002: Member, Committee on Home Affairs.
2002: Co-Chairman, Indo-US Parliamentary Forum, Member, Board of International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, headquartered in the US
2003: Member, Programme Board of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Indian AIDS Initiative.
Publications Contributed articles on important issues such as security, nuclear proliferation, terrorism etc., in national dailies and periodicals.
Social and Cultural Activities, Literary, Artistic & Scientific Accomplishments and other Special Interests Public issues and cultural events.
Sports, Clubs, Favourite Pastimes and Recreation Belvedere Club, The Oberoi Hotel, New Delhi.
India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
Reading, writing, traveling and cooking. Actively interested in spreading scientific knowledge and reasoning.
Countries visited U.S.A., Canada, Switzerland, China, Bhutan, Vietnam, South Africa, Nigeria, Senegal and several South East Asian countries, traveled throughout Europe and North Africa.
Other Information Studied and worked in the United States.
Offered appointment to the I.A.S., but declined.
Joined the Bar in 1972.
Designated Senior Advocate in 1983.
Leader, Indian delegation to the Human Rights Commission, Geneva, January 1991.
Member, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention set up by the Human Rights Commission, Geneva.
Member, Board of Management, Indira Gandhi National Open University, 1993.