Prakash Keshav Javadekar

Prakash Keshav Javadekar is presently the Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting after taking oath as a Union Cabinet Minister on May 30, 2019 in Narendra Modi-led NDA Government’s second term.  He was elevated as a Cabinet Minister on July 5, 2016 and assigned the HRD portfolio. He was first inducted into the Council of Ministers led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 26, 2014 as Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Environment, Forest & Climate Change and Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Additionally, he also worked as a Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs until November 9, 2014. He continued and concentrated thereafter as MoS (IC) of Environment, Forest and Climate Change until July 5, 2016.

He is a member of Rajya Sabha (Council of States) representing Maharashtra Since April 2018 (Third Term).  In his second term as a member of Rajya Sabha represented the state of Madhya Pradesh from June 2014 to March 2018. Javadekar was first elected to Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra in May, 2008. He had served with distinction in Parliamentary Standing Committees of Defence, HRD and Consultative Committee of Power.  He was also member of Committees on Paper Laid and Subordinate Legislation.