Piyush Vedprakash Goyal is an Indian politician. He was born on 13 June 1964. He is the son of Late Shri Ved Prakash Goyal who had served as a Union Minister for shipping in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee cabinet. He is the currently serving as minister of Railways, Coal and Corporate Affairs in the Government of India. He was elevated to Cabinet Minister position on 3 September 2017. He is currently a Member of Parliament for Rajya Sabha from the state of Maharashtra and was earlier the National Treasurer of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).He did his schooling from Don Bosco High School, Matunga. Also he is all-India second rank holder in Chartered Accountant and second rank holder in Law in Mumbai University. Piyush was a member of the Standing Committee on Finance and the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Defence. He headed the BJP's Information Communication Campaign Committee and oversaw the publicity and advertising campaign of the party including the social media outreach for the Indian General Elections 2014. Mr. Goyal is the 2018 Carnot Prize Recipient for distinguished contributions to energy policy.
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New Delhi: Congress today charged that the passage of the coal and mines and minerals Bills in Parliament would “take away the rights” of states and enable “backdoor de-nationalisation”.“Earlier, they (BJP) used to make allegations
Mumbai: A war of words has ensued between ruling partners BJP and Shiv Sena after a leader of Uddhav Thackeray-led party alleged “wrongdoing” in a project to install LED lights in 100 cities, including Mumbai,
New Delhi: Ahead of the budget session of Jammu and Kashmir, Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh along with Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu met Union ministers Piyush Goyal and Arun Jaitley and discussed about needs of
New Delhi: The next phase of auction of coal mines will begin shortly, government told the Lok Sabha today.“In the first phase, the government had auctioned 19 coal mines. The second phase, under more mines
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government intends to bring Bills on all the eight ordinances including the Land Acquisition Bill, Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill and the Coal Mining Bill in the Lok Sabha soon after
New Delhi: Virtually rebutting criticism by leading banker Deepak Parekh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the government is being criticised for rather being “too fast”.While Jaitley parried a question on Parekh's criticism yesterday that
New Delhi: On the sixth day of coal blocks auction Thursday, Coal and Power Minister Piyush Goyal said the ongoing auction, as well as the allocation, of the mines will fetch the respective home states
New Delhi: India's renewable energy sector is poised to attract $200 billion in investments, Power and Renewable Energy Minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday."In terms of companies which are participating, several have committed to invest
New Delhi: Five days to go for Delhi polls, allegations today flew thick and fast with BJP and a break-away group of AAP accusing the Arvind Kejriwal-led party of receiving Rs 2 crore last year
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has denied having made any caste reference in an election advertisement that mocked Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Chief Arvind Kejriwal. The saffron party has accused the AAP of
New Delhi: BJP leader and Power and Coal Minister Piyush Goyal assures Delhiites of 24hours electricity a week before Delhi Assembly polls. While speaking to the press, he said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's primary
Davos: Asserting that investors have no concern about ordinance route being adopted for coal auction, Coal and Power Minister Piyush Goyal said the entire process would generate over $100 billion in royalties and auction proceeds
New Delhi: US President Barack Obama will arrive in India Jan 25 along with his wife Michelle on a three-day state visit, described Thursday as the culmination of "qualitative reinvigoration" of bilateral ties since Prime
Davos: India is back in the reckoning at the global centre-stage and the huge build-up in positive sentiments among investors should soon start converting into real investment flows on the ground, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
New Delhi: Narendra Modi has appointed Piyush Goyal as the 'Minister in Waiting' for Barack Obama who will be on a 3-day visit to India starting from 25th January. Barack Obama will be the Chief
Mumbai: The Electricity (amendment) Bill, 2014, which aims at unbundling the power distribution and transmission sector and opening it for competition, is likely to be passed during the coming budget session of the Parliament, Union
Bhubaneswar: An amount of Rs 3 lakh crore would be invested in building infrastructure for transmission and distribution of power in the country, Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal today said.This would facilitate a 24×7 power
New Delhi: Following his talks with unions to end the Coal India workers' strike, Coal and Power Minister Piyush Goyal is doubly confident of the state miner achieving its production target of a million tonnes
New Delhi: The nationwide strike called by hundreds of thousands of coal workers to protest against 'disinvestment and restructuring of state-run Coal India' and to press for their other demands including the roll-back of what
New Delhi: State-owned Coal India is transporting extra coal to the power plants to help them tide over the likely disruption of supplies following the proposed five-day strike by the unions beginning tomorrow."Coal India (CIL)
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