Piyush Vedprakash Goyal is an Indian politician. He was born on 13 June 1964. He is the son of Late Shri Ved Prakash Goyal who had served as a Union Minister for shipping in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee cabinet. He is the currently serving as minister of Railways, Coal and Corporate Affairs in the Government of India. He was elevated to Cabinet Minister position on 3 September 2017. He is currently a Member of Parliament for Rajya Sabha from the state of Maharashtra and was earlier the National Treasurer of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).He did his schooling from Don Bosco High School, Matunga. Also he is all-India second rank holder in Chartered Accountant and second rank holder in Law in Mumbai University. Piyush was a member of the Standing Committee on Finance and the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Defence. He headed the BJP's Information Communication Campaign Committee and oversaw the publicity and advertising campaign of the party including the social media outreach for the Indian General Elections 2014. Mr. Goyal is the 2018 Carnot Prize Recipient for distinguished contributions to energy policy.
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Davos: Asserting that investors have no concern about ordinance route being adopted for coal auction, Coal and Power Minister Piyush Goyal said the entire process would generate over $100 billion in royalties and auction proceeds
New Delhi: US President Barack Obama will arrive in India Jan 25 along with his wife Michelle on a three-day state visit, described Thursday as the culmination of "qualitative reinvigoration" of bilateral ties since Prime
Davos: India is back in the reckoning at the global centre-stage and the huge build-up in positive sentiments among investors should soon start converting into real investment flows on the ground, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
New Delhi: Narendra Modi has appointed Piyush Goyal as the 'Minister in Waiting' for Barack Obama who will be on a 3-day visit to India starting from 25th January. Barack Obama will be the Chief
Mumbai: The Electricity (amendment) Bill, 2014, which aims at unbundling the power distribution and transmission sector and opening it for competition, is likely to be passed during the coming budget session of the Parliament, Union
Bhubaneswar: An amount of Rs 3 lakh crore would be invested in building infrastructure for transmission and distribution of power in the country, Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal today said.This would facilitate a 24×7 power
New Delhi: Following his talks with unions to end the Coal India workers' strike, Coal and Power Minister Piyush Goyal is doubly confident of the state miner achieving its production target of a million tonnes
New Delhi: The nationwide strike called by hundreds of thousands of coal workers to protest against 'disinvestment and restructuring of state-run Coal India' and to press for their other demands including the roll-back of what
New Delhi: State-owned Coal India is transporting extra coal to the power plants to help them tide over the likely disruption of supplies following the proposed five-day strike by the unions beginning tomorrow."Coal India (CIL)
New Delhi: Pursuing energy efficient ways will help reduce electricity consumption and save as much as Rs 50,000 crore, according to Power Minister Piyush Goyal.Emphasising the need for conserving energy, he said that within next
New Delhi: The government is working on a swapping arrangement of coal, which will help save Rs 6,000 crore and improve fuel supplies to power plants, the Parliament was informed on Thursday.Coal and Power Minister
New Delhi: The union cabinet on Wednesday approved the various amendments to the Electricity Act, 2003 as per the power ministry's proposed amendment bill."The amendments will usher in much-needed further reforms in the power sector,
New Delhi: The government on Wednesday introduced a bill in the Lok Sabha to begin allocation of coal blocks that were cancelled by the Supreme Court.The Coal Mines (Special Provisions) Bill, 2014, will replace an
New Delhi: Government has no proposal at present to provide fresh coal linkages to private companies for new and upcoming power projects, Rajya Sabha was informed today.“At persent, there is no proposal to provide fresh
Mumbai: Expressing confidence that the Bill to replace coal ordinance will be passed in the ongoing session of Parliament, Union Minister Piyush Goyal Saturday promised to significantly reduce the woes in the sector in the
New Delhi: Twelve states have agreed to set up of solar power parks and ultra mega solar projects totalling 22,100 MW capacity, including a 7,500 MW park to be set up in Leh and Kargil
New Delhi: The Power Ministry will soon approach the Cabinet with a proposal to introduce stringent rules for buyers and sellers of renewable energy, besides making amendments to the provisions in the overall tariff policy,
Lucknow: Holding the NDA government at the Centre responsible for the power crisis in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today said the state was not getting its allocated quota of coal and power. “We
Patna: Omission of the name and photograph of former Chief Minister Nitish Kumar from the site of NTPC power plant at Barh, where a unit is being dedicated to the people today, triggered a war
Patna: Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday said that the Narendra Modi government has decided to provide "uninterrupted electricity through dedicated feeders to farmers" across the country in the next two years."We have begun
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