Nirmala Sitharaman is now our new Finance Minister
Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman takes charge as the Union Minister of Finance & Corporate Affairs
Smt.
Nirmala Sitharaman assumed charge as the Union Minister of Finance
& Corporate Affairs here today. She was greeted at the office in
North Block by Minister of State for Finance & Corporate Affairs
designate, Shri Anurag Singh Thakur, Finance Secretary Shri Subhash
Chandra Garg and other Secretaries of the Ministry. Smt. Sitharaman is
the first woman appointed as the full-time Union Minister of Finance
& Corporate Affairs.
After
assuming the charge, the Union Minister for Finance & Corporate
Affairs was briefed on the key initiatives and policy issues by the
Secretaries of the different departments of the Ministry of Finance
& Corporate Affairs and was apprised of the ongoing issues and the
forthcoming challenges facing the Indian economy among others.
BRIEF PROFILE:
Smt.
Nirmala Sitharaman has served as the Union Defence Minister since 2017.
She is currently a Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament (MP) from
Karnataka. In 2014, she was elected as Rajya Sabha MP from Andhra
Pradesh. She has also served as the Minister of State for Finance and
Corporate Affairs and later the Minister for Commerce and Industry with
Independent Charge.
As
the Defence Minister, Smt. Sitharaman is credited with expediting the
decision-making process relating to procurement in defence sector. She
constituted a Defence Planning Committee to formulate an “action plan”
to effectively overcome with various security challenges facing the
nation.
Smt.
Sitharaman joined the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) in 2008 and has served
as a national spokesperson for the party since 2010.
Smt.
Sitharaman was born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, on August 18, 1959. She
completed her graduation from Seethalakshmi Ramasamy College,
Tiruchirappalli and obtained her M.A. (Economics) from Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi.
Source: PIB
