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Shri Balavant alias Bal Apte
Constituency : Rajya Sabha Member (Maharashtra)

Party Name : Bharatiya Janata Party

Email Address : bpapte@sansad.nic.in
Designation : M.P. - Rajya Sabha 
 


Father's Name: Shri Parashuram Apte

Mother's Name: Shrimati Sita Apte

Date of Birth: 18 January 1939

Place of Birth: Rajgurunagar, Distt. Pune (Maharashtra)

Marital Status: Married

Date of Marriage: 28 February 1967

Spouse's Name: Shrimati Urmila Apte

No.of Sons: -

No.of Daughters: 1

Educational Qualifications: M.A., LL.M. Educated at University of Mumbai, Mumbai

Permanent Address:Girish Building, T.H. Kataria Road, Mahim, Mumbai. 400016 Tel. - {022} 24376441, 24372419

Present Address: C-702, Swarna Jayanti Sadan, Dr. B.D. Marg, New Delhi. 110001 Tel. - (022) 23311966

Position Held:

1996-98 : Additional Advocate General, State of Maharashtra

April 2000 : Elected to Rajya Sabha

May 2000 onwards : Member, Zonal Railway Users Consultative Committee for the Central Railway Zone Member, Committee on Rules

May 2000 - Feb. 2004 : Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Defence

Jan.2001 - Feb. 2004 : Member, Committee on Labour and Welfare

Dec.2001 onwards : Member, India-Iran Parliamentary Friendship Group Member, India-Russia Parliamentary Friendship Group

Jan.2002-May 2004 : Member, Board of Governors, Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan

Jan.2002-2005 : Member, Samsad (Court) of Visva Bharati

May 2002 onwards : Member, Governing Council of National Mission for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

Feb. 2002-Feb. 2005 : Member, Central Advisory Committee for Light Houses Member, Railway Convention Committee

Aug. 2002 - Feb. 2004 : Member, Committee on Human Resource Development

Aug. 2002 - March 2006 : Member, Court of the Jawaharlal Nehru University

Jan. 2003-April 2006 : Member, Council of National Literacy Mission Authority

Nov. 2003-April 2006 : Member, Central Advisory Board (S.8 Minimum Wages Act, 1948)

July 2001-April 2006 : Member, Central Advisory Board on Child Labour

July 2004-April 2006 : Nominated to the Panel of Vice-Chairmen, Rajya Sabha

Aug. 2004-April 2006 and June 2006 onwards : Member, Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice

Aug. 2004-April 2006 : Member, General Purposes Committee

May 2006 onwards : Member, Central Advisory Board of Education

Sept. 2004-2006 : Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Civil Aviation

Nov. 2004-2006 : Member, Informal Consultative Committee (S) for Central Railway and Western Railways Member, Telephone Advisory Committee for MTNL, Mumbai

April 2006 : Re-elected to Rajya Sabha

Sept. 2006 onwards : Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

July 2007 onwards : Vice-President, India-China Parliamentary Friendship Group

May 2008 onwards : Member, Committee on Rules

August 2008 onwards : Member, Hindi Salahkar Samiti, Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways

Was National President, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (A.B.V.P.) and was active in A.B.V.P. for 38 years; was on Governing Council of Shikshan Prasarak Mandali, an educational institution running 20 colleges and schools for about two decades; was President, Advocates Association of Western India (A.A.W.I.), High Court, Mumbai; President, Sawarkar Darshan Pratisthan (Trust), Mumbai; Vice-President, Ram Bhau Mahalgi Prabodhni, Mumbai; Chairman, (i) Vidyarthi Nidhi Trust, Mumbai and (ii) 'Srijan' Dipex Centre for Entrepreneurship Development; Founder Member, Students' Experience in Inter-State Living Trust, Mumbai

Favourite Pastime and Recreation : Reading and writing

Sports and Clubs : Reading and writing

Countries Visited : U.S.S.R. as a member of Indo-U.S.S.R. Youth Meet in 1978, China, South Korea, Panama, U.K. and U.S.A. as a member of parliamentry delegation, Germany, Switserland; attended the 119th assembly of Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) held at Geneva in October 2008

Other Information : Fought against the Emergency, 1975-77; was detained under the MISA from December 1975 to February 1977; taught Law as Hon. Professor at (i) New Law College, Mumbai, for twelve years, (ii) University of Mumbai, Mumbai for twelve years; designated Senior Advocate by the High Court, Mumbai; was Member, Senate, University of Mumbai; National Vice-President, Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.) since 2002
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