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As the Railway minister, he has advocated instituting a rail regulator to fix rail fares, a policy that is diametrically opposite to the one by earlier railway ministers.<ref name=bl/> According to him, “There is lot of room (for a regulatory authority). If you want to de-politicise, you must have some kind of regulator which deals with the fare and freight and quality ... I am personally in favour of regulatory body for the Railways which will benefit it in the long run. But it all depends on Parliament and the government. If they feel then it can be done.”<ref name=bl/> He has also advocated depoliticizing the Railways<ref>{{cite news | url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-01-31/news/31010509_1_fare-hike-dinesh-trivedi-regulatory-body | title=Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi pitches for regulator to suggest fare hike | work=[[The Economic Times|Economic Times]] | date=Jan 31, 2012 | accessdate=February 24, 2012}}</ref> and would like to restructure the Indian Railway Board.<ref name=bl/> He said, “Restructuring is a continuous process. It is now operation oriented, it should be customer oriented. Unless we know what customer wants then it will be difficult for us to carry forward.”<ref name=bl>{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/logistics/article2848104.ece | title=Trivedi for regulatory body in railways | work=[[Business Line]] | date=Jan. 31, 2012 | accessdate=February 24, 2012}}</ref> Trivedi believes that the [[Indian Railways]] can add 2% to India's GDP<ref name=rediff/> and is willing to go against his party's line of not hiking the fares.<ref name=et/> However, he believes the government must modernize the railways, for which a fare hike would not be able to generate adequate funds, and has publicly criticized the [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]] for not providing funds.<!----unprecedented for a first-time minister--->.<ref name=et/> He said: "The railways are in dire need of Rs 1 lakh crore over the next five years to transport people and goods safely. I have taken this up repeatedly with the finance ministry and the Planning Commission, but all I have heard is words... At a time a bailout package is discussed for Air India and help is extended to private airlines like Kingfisher, why can't the government step in to fund the railways that can add to the GDP? ... The government needs to understand that spending on the railways is not purely expenditure but an investment in infrastructure that will pay rich dividends...Salaries and overheads account for 86 paise of every rupee that the railways earn. How do we plough back the remaining 14 paise for our daily fuel and equipment for safety while also ensuring cleanliness?"<ref name=et>{{cite news | url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/transportation/railways/railway-budget-2012-dinesh-trivedi-slams-pm-for-not-providing-adequate-funds-to-railways/articleshow/12048855.cms | title=Railway Budget 2012: Dinesh Trivedi slams PM for not providing adequate funds to railways | work=[[The Economic Times]] | date=27 Feb, 2012 | accessdate=February 27, 2012 | author=Jain, Bharti}}</ref> Trivedi is pushing for a national policy on railways.<ref name=bsindia/> He says: “regardless of change in governments or railway ministers, the policy must continue, it shouldn’t change.” According to Trivedi, his greatest achievement is improving synergy within the railways. He says: “When I came to the ministry, I found they [Railway Board and so on] were working in silos. I changed that, made the working more democratic and created greater synergy among different departments.”<ref name=bsindia/>
As the Railway minister, he has advocated instituting a rail regulator to fix rail fares, a policy that is diametrically opposite to the one by earlier railway ministers.<ref name=bl/> He has also advocated de-politicizing the Railways<ref>{{cite news | url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-01-31/news/31010509_1_fare-hike-dinesh-trivedi-regulatory-body | title=Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi pitches for regulator to suggest fare hike | work=[[The Economic Times|Economic Times]] | date=Jan 31, 2012 | accessdate=February 24, 2012}}</ref> and would like to restructure the Indian Railway Board,<ref name=bl>{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/logistics/article2848104.ece | title=Trivedi for regulatory body in railways | work=[[Business Line]] | date=Jan. 31, 2012 | accessdate=February 24, 2012}}</ref> which lacked synergy before he joined.<ref name=bsindia/> Trivedi believes that the [[Indian Railways]] can add 2% to India's GDP<ref name=rediff/> and is willing to go against his party's line of not hiking the fares.<ref name=et/> However, he believes the government must modernize the railways, for which a fare hike would not be able to generate adequate funds, and has publicly criticized the [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]] for not providing funds.<!----unprecedented for a first-time minister--->.<ref name=et>{{cite news | url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/transportation/railways/railway-budget-2012-dinesh-trivedi-slams-pm-for-not-providing-adequate-funds-to-railways/articleshow/12048855.cms | title=Railway Budget 2012: Dinesh Trivedi slams PM for not providing adequate funds to railways | work=[[The Economic Times]] | date=27 Feb, 2012 | accessdate=February 27, 2012 | author=Jain, Bharti}}</ref> Trivedi is pushing for a national policy on railways, that would continue irrespective of political changes in the government.<ref name=bsindia/>


Trivedi would also like to start [[High-speed rail|high speed passenger trains]] in India with Japanese help<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nb20111102a6.html | title=India to get shinkansen sales blitz | work=Japan Times | date=Nov. 2, 2011 | accessdate=February 24, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/logistics/article2910088.ece | title=High speed trains: Railways, Japan to form joint working group | work=[[Business Line]] | date=Feb 19, 2012 | accessdate=February 24, 2012}}</ref> or French support.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.mydigitalfc.com/news/france-help-india-realise-high-speed-train-dream-600 | title=France to help India realise high-speed train dream | work=[[Financial Chronicle]] |first=Saahil|last=Anant date=February 26, 2012 | accessdate=February 27, 2012}}</ref>
Trivedi would also like to start [[High-speed rail|high speed passenger trains]] in India with Japanese help<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nb20111102a6.html | title=India to get shinkansen sales blitz | work=Japan Times | date=Nov. 2, 2011 | accessdate=February 24, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/logistics/article2910088.ece | title=High speed trains: Railways, Japan to form joint working group | work=[[Business Line]] | date=Feb 19, 2012 | accessdate=February 24, 2012}}</ref> or French support.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.mydigitalfc.com/news/france-help-india-realise-high-speed-train-dream-600 | title=France to help India realise high-speed train dream | work=[[Financial Chronicle]] |first=Saahil|last=Anant date=February 26, 2012 | accessdate=February 27, 2012}}</ref>

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Dinesh Trivedi
Portrait of Dinesh Trivedi
Minister of Railways
Incumbent
Assumed office
13 July 2011
PresidentPratibha Patil
Prime MinisterManmohan Singh
Preceded byManmohan Singh
Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare
In office
22 May 2010 – 12 July 2011
Succeeded bySudip Bandyopadhyay
Member of Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office
May 2009
ConstituencyBarrackpore
Personal details
Born (1950-06-04) 4 June 1950 (age 74)[1]
New Delhi, Delhi, India[1]
Political partyTrinamool Congress
SpouseDr. Minal Trivedi[1]
Children1
Residence(s)New Delhi
Kolkata
Alma materSt. Xavier's College, Calcutta
University of Texas, Austin
ProfessionPilot
Politician
SignatureFile:Signature Dinesh Trivedi.PNG
Websitehttp://www.dineshtrivedi.com/

Dinesh Trivedi (born 4 June 1950) is an Indian politician from the All India Trinamool Congress party, a current Member of Parliament in the lower house representing Barrackpore, West Bengal and the current Minister for Railways in the cabinet.[2][3] He is also the Chairman of the Indo-European Union Parliamentary Forum (IEUPF).[4]

Early life

Trivedi is the youngest child of the Gujarati couple, Hiralal and Urmila, who migrated to India from Karachi during India's partition, where all his other siblings were born.[3] His parents lived in a number of places before coming to New Delhi, where he was born.[3] His father then started working for the Hindustan Construction Company in Kolkata.[3] Trivedi attended prestigious boarding schools in Himachal Pradesh, before graduating in commerce from St. Xavier's College, Calcutta.[3] He then took a loan of Rs.20,000 and completed his MBA from the The University of Texas at Austin.[3] He also trained to be a pilot, a result of his childhood dream of flying for the Indian Air Force.[3] He is a trained sitar player and enjoys classical music.[5] He also applied to train as an actor at the Film Institute, Pune, but didn't follow it up as he then believed it not to be a serious job, as reported by Rediff.com.[3] He was also drawn towards a picture of Swami Vivekanand in an advertisement by the Ramkrishna Mission, and decided to be a monk, but did not do so due to strong advice by his family and a Swami in Chicago.[3] He dons rings with safire, emerald and coral on his right hand to ward off the ill-effects of the mangal griha (planet Mars).[3][6]

Early career

After his MBA in 1974, he worked in Chicago for two years for the Detex Company, before returning to India, where he worked for a logistics provider Lee and Muirhead.[3] In 1984, he quit the job to start his own air freight company based in Kolkata. He also started a consumer protection centre.[3]

Petitioner

Trivedi has filed many petitions.[3] He says, "I was so fed up of corruption then. I thought I can't progress here. But, my father told me to learn to fight corruption, make your way." Trivedi shot into prominence when he asked the Supreme Court to make the Vohra report on the criminalization of politics in India public. This petition gave a push to the Right to Information movement.[3]

Career as a politician

Trivedi joined the Congress party in the 1980s, but switched over to the Janata Dal in 1990.[7] Later, in 1998 he joined Mamata Banerjee when she started the Trinamool Congress party and became its first general secretary.[3]

He was a member of the Upper House in the Indian Parliament from 1990 to 2008.[7] In the 2009 elections he contested for the Trinamool Congress party and won from Barrackpore to join the lower house in the Parliament.[7] He joined the cabinet as the Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare in 2009.[7] In 2011, he offered to resign as a minister in support of Anna Hazare.[8] In 2011, after Mamata Banerjee quit as the railway minister to become the Chief Minister of West Bengal, he was elevated as the Cabinet Minister for Railways.[7]

Railway minister

As the Railway minister, he has advocated instituting a rail regulator to fix rail fares, a policy that is diametrically opposite to the one by earlier railway ministers.[9] He has also advocated de-politicizing the Railways[10] and would like to restructure the Indian Railway Board,[9] which lacked synergy before he joined.[5] Trivedi believes that the Indian Railways can add 2% to India's GDP[3] and is willing to go against his party's line of not hiking the fares.[11] However, he believes the government must modernize the railways, for which a fare hike would not be able to generate adequate funds, and has publicly criticized the Prime Minister for not providing funds..[11] Trivedi is pushing for a national policy on railways, that would continue irrespective of political changes in the government.[5]

Trivedi would also like to start high speed passenger trains in India with Japanese help[12][13] or French support.[14]

In 2011, the script of the James Bond film being shot on trains in India, had to be changed when Trivedi insisted that people not be shown traveling on the roofs of trains and which is illegal.[15]

In August 2011, Mamata Banerjee's ministerial room in the Parliament, which has traditionally been allotted to the railway minister, was allotted to another minister as she was his senior colleague in the cabinet. However, before the formal orders could be issued, Trivedi involved the Prime Minister and Mamata Banerjee to get the room allotted to himself to avoid “utter humiliation of the Railway Ministry and 1.4 lakh Railway employees”. According to the The Tribune, his party also reminded the Prime Minister that the UPA owed this to its biggest ally, the AITC.[16][17][18]

Personal life

Trivedi is married to Minal, who holds a PhD in genetics. They have a son Parth, who is pursuing aerospace engineering from the Purdue University.[3]

Positions held

Position Held[19] Detail/Organization
Member of Parliament (1990–2008) Rajya Sabha
Chairman Passengers Amenities Committee, Ministry of Railways
Member Committee on Rules
Member Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Civil Aviation
Member Civil Aviation Committee
Member Committee on Finance
Member Committee on Commerce
Vice-Chairman Rajya Sabha
Member Committee on Petitions
Member Committee on Public Undertakings Member, General Purposes Committee
Co-Convener Sub-Committee for Special Economic Zones of the Committee on Commerce

Forums

Position[1] Forum
Chairman Indo EU Parliamentarians forum
Member Indo American Forum of Parliamentarians
Member Indo British Forum of Parliamentarians
Member Indo France Forum of Parliamentarians
Member Indo German Forum of Parliamentarians
Member Indo UK Forum of Parliamentarians
Member Indo Japan Forum of Parliamentarians
Member Aspan Dialogue Think Tank, USA
Member Aspan Euro

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Detailed Profile - Shri Dinesh Trivedi - Members of Parliament (Lok Sabha) - Who's Who - Government: National Portal of India". India.gov.in. 12 December 1977. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  2. ^ "Lok Sabha". 164.100.47.132. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Sheela Bhatt (12 July 2011). "Trivedi, a man of many parts". Rediff.com. New Delhi. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  4. ^ "Indo-EU parliamentary forum launched". The Times of India. 3 April 2005. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  5. ^ a b c Phadnis, Aditi (24 January 2012). "Coffee with BS: Dinesh Trivedi". Business Standard. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  6. ^ Hashmi , Lubna (13 July 2011). "Dinesh Trivedi: An extraordinary man of Expression". aajkikhabar.com. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  7. ^ a b c d e "Who is Dinesh Trivedi". NDTV. 15 November 2011. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  8. ^ "Dinesh Trivedi: Trained pilot who will drive Indian railways". Asian Age. 12 July 2011. Retrieved 28 February 2012.
  9. ^ a b "Trivedi for regulatory body in railways". Business Line. Jan. 31, 2012. Retrieved February 24, 2012. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ "Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi pitches for regulator to suggest fare hike". Economic Times. 31 January 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  11. ^ a b Jain, Bharti (27 Feb, 2012). "Railway Budget 2012: Dinesh Trivedi slams PM for not providing adequate funds to railways". The Economic Times. Retrieved February 27, 2012. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. ^ "India to get shinkansen sales blitz". Japan Times. Nov. 2, 2011. Retrieved February 24, 2012. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  13. ^ "High speed trains: Railways, Japan to form joint working group". Business Line. 19 February 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  14. ^ Anant date=February 26, 2012, Saahil. "France to help India realise high-speed train dream". Financial Chronicle. Retrieved 27 February 2012. {{cite news}}: Missing pipe in: |last= (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  15. ^ Barnes, Henry (7 September 2011). "James Bond 23: India orders backtrack on 'illegal' rooftop train stunt". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  16. ^ Tandon, Aditi (4 August 2011). "Rly Minister fights 'seating' battle; wins". The Tribune. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  17. ^ "Railway minister Dinesh Trivedi finally gets room no. 6 on Parliament's ground floor after PM intervention". The Economic Times. 4 August 2011. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  18. ^ "Dinesh Trivedi, Ambika Soni spar over room in Parliament Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/dinesh-trivedi-ambika-soni-spar-over-room-in-parliament/1/146950.html". India Today. 3 August 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2012. {{cite news}}: External link in |title= (help)
  19. ^ "Dinesh Trivedi". Dinesh Trivedi. Retrieved 24 February 2012.

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