Jairam Ramesh Contact Details, Contact Address, Phone Number, Email ID, Website, Office Details

Jairam Ramesh is an Indian economist, historian and politician belonging to Indian National Congress. He is a Member of Parliament representing Karnataka state in the Rajya Sabha. In July 2011, Jairam was elevated to the Union Council of Ministers of India and appointed Minister of Rural Development and Minister (additional charge) of the new Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. However, in the cabinet reshuffle in October 2012, he has been divested of the portfolio of Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. He was previously the Indian Minister of State (Independent Charge) at the Ministry of Environment and Forests from May 2009 to July 2011.

Name : Shri Dr. Koragappa Narayan 

Member of Parliament : Rajya Sabha

State : Karnataka

Party : Bharatiya Janata Party

Father's Name : Late Shri C.K. Ramesh

Mother's Name : Shrimati Sridevi Ramesh

Date of Birth :  9 April 1954

Place of Birth : Chikmagalur (Karnataka)

Marital Status : Married on 26 January 1981

Spouse's Name : Shrimati K.R. Jayashree

Children : Two sons

Educational Qualification : B.Tech., M.S. and Graduate Study Educated at I.I.T., Bombay, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. and M.I.T., U.S.A.

Profession : Economist

Permanent Address : 6-3-862/3, Sadat Manzil, Apoorva Unit No. 4, Ameerpet, Khairatabad, Hyderabad. 500016 Tel.-

Present Address : C-I/9, Lodhi Garden, Rajesh Pilot Marg, New Delhi

Tel.- 24635888, 24635333,21430813,

Mobile: 9868181402, 9868181302, 9013181222

E-mail : jairam@sansad.nic.in

Positions Held :
2000 - 2002 : Deputy Chairman, State Planning Board, Government of Karnataka            
June 2004 : Elected to Rajya Sabha
Aug. 2004 - Jan. 2006 : Member, Committee on Finance
Re-elected to Rajya Sabha (resigned w.e.f. 20 June 2016) (second term)
Jan. 2010 - April 2014 : Vice-President, Parliamentary Forum on Artisans and Craftspeople
Dec. 2013 - April 2014 : Member, Parliamentary Forum on Millennium Development Goals
Sept. - Nov. 2014 : Member, Committee on Rural Development
Nov. 2014 - Sept 2019 : Member, Committee on Health and Family Welfare and Elected to Rajya Sabha (third term)
Nov.  2019 onwards : Member,  General Purposes Committee
June 2004 : Elected to Rajya Sabha
Aug. 2004 - Jan. 2006 : Member, Committee on Finance
Oct. 2004 - Jan. 2006 : Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Finance
June 2010 : Re-elected to Rajya Sabha (resigned w.e.f. 20 June 2016) (second term)
13 July 2011 - 28 Oct. 2012  : Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation  (Additional Charge)
April 2013 - May 2014 : 
Nov. 2014 - Sept 2019 Member, Committee on Health and Family Welfare
Nov. 2014 - May 2019 and Oct. 2019 onwards  Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
May 2015 - June 2016 and Aug. 2016 -  May 2019
Member, Joint Committee on the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (second Amendment), Bill, 2015
July 2016 Elected to Rajya Sabha (third term)
Dec. 2019 - Feb. 2020 : Chairman,  ad-hoc Committee in the Rajya Sabha to study the alarming issue of pornography on social media and its effect on children and society as a whole
Dec. 2021 onwards : Member, Joint Committee on the Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill, 2021