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Piyush Goyal Profile, Early Life, Education, Achievements, Awards
Piyush Goyal Biography: early Life, Professional Life, awards and achievements
Minister of railway Piyush Goyal who is the son of Ved Prakash Goyal who had served as a union minister for shopping in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee cabinet.
Ved Prakash was also in Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) for a long time and his mother Chandrakanta Goel was a tree time MLA from Maharastra.
Piyush Goyal was the minister of State with Independent Charge for power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy in the Government of India.
Piyush Goyal"s Early Life, Academic Education and achievements
Piyush Goyal is all-India second rank holder Chartered Accountant and also Second rank holder in Law in Mumbai University.
Piyush Goyal has participated in the leadership program at Yale University in 2011, Oxford University in 2012 and Princeton University in 2013.
Piyush Goyal is currently, perusing the Owner President Management (OPM) program at Harvard Business School.
Piyush Goyal served on board of India’s largest commercial banks, the state bank of India and Bank of Baroda.
Goyal was a member of the standing committee on finance and the consultative committee for the ministry of defacing.
During 28 years long political career Goyal has served on the national executive and several important positions in the PJP.
He is also nominated by the government of India to the Task Force for Interlinking of Reserves.
In 1991 Piyush Goyal was the Dy. Campaign In-charge for the parliament election and played a key role at the central level in all election since 2004.
He was elected as the BJP candidate from Maharashtra for the Rajya Sabha on 3 June 2016.
