Ashwini Vaishnaw

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	Ashwini Vaishnaw is India&#39;s incumbent Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronics &amp; Information Technology (IT)</div>
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	Ashwini Vaishnaw is an Indian politician and former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer who was born on July 18, 1970, in Rajasthan.</div>
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	Ashwini Vaishnaw is a Member of the Rajya Sabha from Odisha since June 2019 and has served as a collector in Cuttack and Balasore districts of the state.</div>
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	Ashwini Vaishnaw graduated from MBM Engineering College (JNVU) Jodhpur in 1991 and received a gold medal in an electronic and communications engineering course. He cracked IAS in 1994 with an all-India rank of 27. He went to the US in 2008 for an MBA from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.</div>
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	Bureaucrat-turned politician Ashwini Vaishnaw holds a bachelor&#39;s degree and gold medal in electronics and communications engineering from Jai Narain Vyas University and a master&#39;s degree in industrial management and engineering from IIT Kanpur.</div>
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	The 1994-batch IAS officer is known for his involvement in the Public-Private Policy (PPP) framework in infrastructure development.</div>
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	Vaishnaw joined GE Transportation as Managing Director after coming back to India. Later, he was appointed as the Vice President - Locomotives &amp; Head Urban Infrastructure Strategy at Siemens.</div>
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	Vaishnaw left the corporate sector in 2012 and established automotive components manufacturing units -- Vee Gee Auto Components Pvt Ltd and Three Tee Auto Logistics Pvt Ltd in Gujarat.</div>
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	Ashwini Vaishnaw ventured into politics when he worked in the Prime Minister&#39;s Office (PMO) in Atal Bihari Vajpayee&#39;s administration after the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) lost the election in 2004.</div>
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	Two years later, he became the deputy chairman of Mormugao Port Trust. He took charge of the Railway Ministry on July 8, 2021.</div>

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