{{Infobox_Indian_politician | name = Kapil Sibal | image = Kapil
Sibal.jpg | imagesize = 250px | alt = Portrait of Kapil Sibal |
caption = Kapil Sibal at 2007 World Economic Forum | birth_date
= August 8, 1948 | birth_place = Jalandhar, Punjab |
residence = New Delhi |
death_date = | death_place = | constituency = Chandni Chowk |
office3 = MP from Chandni Chowk |
term3 = 2004 - Incumbent
| predecessor = | successor = | office1 = Union Minister of Science and
Technology | term1 = May 22, 2004 - Incumbent | predecessor = | successor = |
office2 = Union Minister for Ministry of Earth
Sciences | term2 = May 22, 2004 - Incumbent | predecessor = | successor = |
office = Union Minister for Ministry of
Human Resource Development | term_start = May 22, 2009 |
predecessor = [[Arjun Singh | successor = Incumbent | party = Indian National Congress |
religion = |profession = Lawyer | spouse = Late Nina Sibal (m.
1973) | children = 2 sons | alma_mater = University
of Delhi (M.A./LL.B.)
Harvard
Law School (LL.M.) | footnotes = | date =
July 9 | year = 2008 | website = Kapil Sibal }}
Kapil Sibal (born August 8, 1948) is a prominent Indian politician and former lawyer and is currently the Union Minister for Ministry of Human Resource Development in the Government of India. He also held the two ministries Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Earth Sciences in the First Manmohan Singh Cabinet.
Previously he was elected by a wide margin to the Rajya Sabha in July 1998 from Bihar .[1] and remained Additional Solicitor General of India, (December 1989 – December 1990) and President, Supreme Court Bar Association, on three occasions (1995-96, 1997-98 and 2001-2002) [2].
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Kapil Sibal was born in Jalandhar, Punjab on August 8, 1948, to Hira Lal Sibal and Smt. Kailash Rani Sibal, his father was a renowned advocate, who was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2006. He moved to Delhi in 1964, and obtained his M.A. in History from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, Delhi, LLB from Faculty of Law,University of Delhi and LL.M (Master's in Law) from Harvard Law School in 1977. In his time at Harvard Law School, he demonstrated himself to be a strong scholar, the ultimate "reasonable man" in discussions, and an excellent chef.
He joined the Bar association in 1972. A year later in 1973, he qualified for the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), and was offered an appointment, but declined the offer. Instead he decided to set up his own law practice.[2][3] He was designated as a Senior Lawyer in 1983. He has been the Additional Solicitor General of India between 1989 and 1990.[2][4]
In August, 2008 an Anthology of Kapil Sibal's poems titled "i witness" was published by Roli Books, New Delhi. He has also contributed several articles on various prominent issues such as security, nuclear proliferation, terrorism etc., in national dailies and periodicals. He won a landslide victory in the constituency of Chandni Chowk for the Indian National Congress against popular TV star Smriti Irani of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Over the years, he has held several important positions in the Government of India and the Society, such as : Additional Solicitor General of India (December 1989-1990) ; Member, Board of Management, Indira Gandhi National Open University (1993) ; President, Supreme Court Bar Association (1995-96, 1997-98 and 2001-2002) ; Member, Rajya Sabha (July 1998) ; Member, Executive Council, Institute of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies (July, 2001) ; Member, Business Advisory Committee (August, 2001) ; Member, Committee on Home Affairs (January, 2002) ; Co-chairman, Indo-US Parliamentary Forum (2002) ; Member, Board of International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (2002) ; Member, Programme Board of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Indian AIDS initiative (2003) ; Member, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention set up by the Human Rights Commission, Geneva.
Kapil Sibal has visited several countries such as the USA, Canada, Switzerland, China, Bhutan, Vietnam, South Africa, Nigeria, Senegal and several South East Asian Countries, throughout Europe and North Africa.
Kapil Sibal led the first Indian expedition to the Arctic and was responsible for setting up an Indian Research Station ‘Himadri’ there in July, 2008. Kapil Sibal was the first Indian Minister to have traveled to the icy continent of Antarctica and stayed at the Maitri base in sub-zero temperatures, for getting a first hand experience about the hardships being faced by the Indian scientists. Kapil Sibal announced an upgrading of India's scientific facilities at the Maitri, besides augmenting the fleet strength of the piston bully vehicles required to travel on ice. Kapil Sibal visited laboratories near Maitri, besides carrying out a final assessment on India's proposed third permanent base.
He represented India in the Annual Meetings of the World Economic Forum in 2005 and 2009 held at Davos, Switzerland. He led the Indian delegation to the Annapolis Conference, USA, held to gather International support for establishment of a Palestinian State and the realization of Israeli–Palestinian Peace during November 2007. He led the Indian delegation to the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at Bali in December 2007.
In the 2004 general elections, Sibal won the elections by a large margin from Chandni Chowk constituency in the National Capital Territory representing the Congress Party by a and was inducted into the Cabinet under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as Union Minister for Science, Technology and Earth Sciences. In the 2009 elections, he again won by a large margin from Chandni Chowk constituency and in the second Manmohan Singh government took charge of the key Human Resource Development ministry.
Minister Sibal has recently approved the creation of an Indian Institute of Technology Muddenahalli as part of the 11th 5 year plan.[5]
He married Nina Sibal on April 13, 1973. She had studied English literature and law in Delhi University and taught in Daulat Ram College before she joined Indian Foreign Service (IFS) in 1972. After postings in New York and Cairo, she was appointed India’s Ambassador to UNESCO in Paris, and later represented UNESCO at the United Nations in New York. She had three books to her credit: Yatra (1987), The Secret Life of Gujjar Mall and Other Stories, and The Dogs of Justice (1998). She died in 2000, after a prolonged illness, at the age of 51.[6]
The couple had two sons, Amit and Akhil, having both studied at Cambridge University, received degrees from the prestigious Harvard and Stanford Universities respectively are now practicing law in India.
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