Party Bharatiya Janata Party Role Indian Politician | Name Alphons Kannanthanam Spouse(s) Sheela Children Adarsh Kannanthanam | |
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Born 8 August 1953
Kottayam, Kerala, India ( 1953-08-08 ) Website www.alphonskannanthanam.com Parents K.V.Joseph, Brijith Joseph | ||
Political party Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
Why india needs modi alphons kannanthanam namo kerala
Alphons Joseph Kannanthanam (born 8 August 1953) is an Indian civil servant, advocate, and politician. He is currently serving as the Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Culture, and Tourism, in office since 3 September 2017 under the B.J.P. Government of Narendra Modi. He is the second B.J.P. Central Minister from Kerala after O. Rajagopal. Kannanthanam belongs to the 1979 batch of the Indian Administrative Service (I.A.S.), Kerala cadre. He was in Time Magazine's list of 100 Young Global Leaders. He pioneered the literacy movement in India by making Kottayam the first 100% literate town of India in 1989. As Commissioner of the Delhi Development Authority (D.D.A.), he demolished 14,310 illegal buildings in Delhi.
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- Why india needs modi alphons kannanthanam namo kerala
- Shri alphons kannanthanam ias resigned at the inauguration of ace leaders of tomorrow
- Early life and education
- Career
- References
Alphons was born in Manimala, Kottayam district, Kerala, India, and was a Left Front independent Member of the Legislative Assembly (M.L.A.) for Kanjirappally in Kottayam district, Kerala from 2006 to 2011. He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2011 and is a member of the BJP.
Shri alphons kannanthanam ias resigned at the inauguration of ace leaders of tomorrow
Early life and education
Alphons Kannanthanam was born in Manimala, Kottayam District, to K.V.Joseph and Brijith Joseph. His father was a World War II veteran who became a school teacher after the war. His parents had nine children; they adopted two more from the orphanage.
Kannanthanam received his early education in Malayalam medium village schools near his place of birth. He completed his Master's in Economics, and was one of the toppers of the Civil Services Examination in the year 1979. He was the best inter university debater in India for three years, while in the University.
Career
He was recruited to the Indian Administrative Service in 1979 and served for 27 years. He voluntary retired from the service in 2006. He was later elected a Member of the Legislative Assembly, from Kanjirappally in Kottayam District, Kerala with the support of Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF). He is also a practicing advocate in the High court and the Supreme Court of India.
Alphons Kannanthanam first came into prominence when he served as the district collector of Kottayam in 1988. He drove the literacy movement in the state and helped to make Kottayam town as the first 100% literate town in India in 1989.
His national profile rose when, as the Commissioner of the Delhi Development Authority from , he demolished illegal buildings and reclaimed land worth more than Rs. 10,000 crores. These actions earned him the title, The Demolition Man. Times of India survey showed that 89.6% of Delhiites supported his action, the highest rating for any public official any time. The action also listed him in Time Magazine's 100 young global leaders in 1994 (cover story-5th Dec, 1994).
In 2006, he resigned from the IAS and entered politics by becoming an LDF supported independent Member of the Legislative Assembly from Kanjirappally.
On 24 March 2011, Alphons joined the BJP in the presence of party president Nitin Gadkari, after having resigned from his assembly seat a couple of hours prior.
He has been appointed as a Member of Committee constituted by Government of India on 26 June 2017 to prepare the final draft of National Education Policy
In a cabinet reshuffle on 3 September 2017, he was appointed as minister of state in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and minister of State (independent charge) of the Ministry of Tourism. Since he is not a member of Parliament, he has to enter either house of the Indian Parliament within six months.