Pawan Kumar Bansal is a graduate in B.Sc. from Government College Chandigarh with an additional degree of LLB from Department of Law of Panjab University. He started his career as an advocate and is currently the member of 15th Lok Sabha of India from Chandigarh constituency. He has represented Chandigarh four times as a Member of Parliament in the 10th, 13th, 14th and 15th Lok Sabha. He is also representing the same in 16th parliament elections.
Mr. Pawan Kumar Bansal became 39th Railway Minister of India on 28th October 2012 and also became the first congress leader to take ministry after 17 years. He started many new trains and improved the infrastructure of railway stations. He is also responsible for setting up 25 skills develop centers across India. He has also worked as Minister of State for Finance and the Minister of Parliament Affairs in first Manmohan Singh’s cabinet. He has served in various sectors for the development of India.
Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal made great efforts to increase employment opportunities in information technology sector, establishing new community centers, development of parks and scaling up quality education in government schools of Chandigarh. He has sanctioned funds to Panjab University and other renowned colleges to invent & upgrade new technologies. He has also worked to promote the value of art & culture. Many events like film or heritage festival and National theatre festival are taking place regularly in the city.
Pawan Kumar Bansal has also showed personal interest towards scaling up of health department in Chandigarh. Many new hospitals are successfully established under his guidance. New five storey OPD block with full air conditioned facility has been made functional in government multi specialty hospital in sector-16, Chandigarh. Primary health centre of Manimajra has been upgraded to civil hospital with an additional emergency-cum-mother & child block. He strived to strengthen the civil hospital for providing 24*7 services for the residents of Manimajra. He is a man next door for the citizens of Chandigarh. To know more about his services; log on to www.pawanbansal.in
