Thiru Thalikkottai Rajuthevar Baalu
Father's Name:
Shri Raju Thevar
Mother's Name :
nlil
Gender:
Male
Birth Place:
Thalikottai, Distt. Thiruvarur (Tamil Nadu)
Marital Status:
Married
E-Mail ID:
transmin@nic.in Profession:
Political & Social Worker Engineer Industrialist
Present Address:
- Room No. 501, Transport Bhawan, No. 1, Parliament Street,New Delhi - 110 001
- Tels. (011) 23710121, 23711252 Fax: (011) 23719023
Permanent Address:
Profile:
- 1957 onwards
- Member, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (D.M.K.)
- 1982-83
- Secretary, D.M.K., Madras District Unit
- 1986-92
- Member, Rajya Sabha
- Member, Public Accounts Committee
- Member, Committee on Rlies (Rajya Sabha)
- 1996
- Elected to 11th Lok Sabha (First Term)
- 1996-98
- Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Whip, DMK Party in Parliament
- 1998
- Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
- 1998-99
- Member, Parliamentary Committee on Railways
- Member, Parliamentary Conslitative Committee, Ministry of Home Affairs
- 1999
- Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (3rd term)
- 23 Oct. 2002-1 Dec. 2003
- Elected as President of Conference of Parties (COP), United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
- 13 Oct.1999- 21 Dec. 2003
- Union Cabinet Minister, Environment & Forests
- 2004
- Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha (4th term)
- 22 May 2004-onwards
- Union Cabinet Minister, Shipping, Road Transport & Highways
- Leader of the DMK Party in Parliament
- Member, various Cabinet Committees including Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA), Cabinet committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) etc. and Member, United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Coordination Committee
- 2007-2008
- Chairperson, Transport Ministers of SAARC countries
