ShivrajVishwanathPatil

Father's Name: Late Shri Vishwanath Rao alias Sambaji Patil

Mother's Name: Late Shrimati Bhagiriti Bai

Date of Birth: 12 October 1935

Place of Birth: Village Chakur, Distt. Latur (Maharashtra)

Marital Status: Married

Date of Marriage: June 1963

Spouse's Name: Late Shrimati Vijaya Patil

No.of Sons: 1

No.of Daughters: 1

Educational Qualifications: B.Sc., LL.M. Educated at Osmania University, Hyderabad and Bombay University, Mumbai

Permanent Address:"Deo Ghar," Ausa Road, Latur, Maharashtra 413512

Present Address: 4, Janpath, New Delhi.

Position Held:

1967-69, 1971 and 1972 : President, Municipality, Latur

1972-79 : Member, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (two terms)

1974-75 :Chairman, Public Undertakings Committee, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly

1975-76 : Deputy Minister, Law and Judiciary, Irrigation and Protocol, Government of Maharashtra

1977-78 : Deputy Speaker, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly

1978-79 : Speaker, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly

1980-84 : Member, Seventh Lok Sabha

May-Sept.1980 : Member, Joint Committee on Salaries and Allowances of Members of Parliament

Sept-Oct.1980 : Chairman, Joint Committee on Salaries and Allowances of Members of Parliament

1980-82 : Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence 1982-83 Union Minister of State (Independent charge) of the Ministry of Commerce

1983-84 : Union Minister of State in the Ministries of Science and Technology, Atomic Energy, Electronics, Space and Ocean Development, Non Conventional Sources of Energy Vice-President, CSIR

1984-89 : Member, Eighth Lok Sabha (second term)

1984-86 : Union Minister of State in the Ministries of Science and Technology, Atomic Energy, Electronics and Ocean Development, Bio-Technology, Non Conventional Sources of Energy Vice-President, CSIR

1985 : Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel and Training, Public Grievances and Pensions and Administrative Reforms

1986-88 : Union Minister of State, Defence Production

1988-89 : Union Minister of State (Independent charge) of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism

1989-91 : Member, Ninth Lok Sabha (third term)

1990-91 : Deputy Speaker, Lok Sabha Chairman, Library Committee Chairman, Committee on Private Members' Bills and Resolutions Member, General Purposes Committee Member, Business Advisory Committee

1991-96 : Member, Tenth Lok Sabha (fourth term)

1991-1996 : Speaker, Lok Sabha Chairman, Business Advisory Committee Chairman, Rules Committee Chairman, General Purposes Committee Chairman, Standing Committee of the Conference of Presiding Officers of the Legislative Bodies in India President, Indian Parliamentary Group President, National Group of Inter-Parliamentary Union President, India Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association

1996-97 : Member, Eleventh Lok Sabha (fifth term)

1996-97 : Member, Committee on Defence

1998-99 : Member, Twelfth Lok Sabha (sixth term) Member, Committee on External Affairs Member, Rules Committee Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of External Affairs

1999-Feb. 2004 : Member, Thirteenth Lok Sabha (seventh term) Chairman, Standing Committee on Finance Member, Committee of Privileges Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Home Affairs Member, General Purposes Committee

2001-04 : Deputy Leader, Congress Parliamentary Party (Lok Sabha) Member, Committee on Security in Parliament Complex

May 2004-30 Nov. 2008 : Union Minister of Home Affairs

July 2004 : Elected to Rajya Sabha

Special Interests Reading and writing

Favourite Pastime and Recreation Swimming, horse-riding and shooting; reading, painting, farming

Sports and Clubs Swimming, horse-riding and shooting; reading, painting, farming

Countries Visited Widely travelled (41 countries); Leader, Indian Parliamentary delegation to (i) 86th Inter-Parliamentary Conference, Santiago, Chile, 1991, (ii) 38th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, Nassau, Bahamas, 1992, (iii) 39th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, Cyprus, 1993, (iv) 90th Inter-Parliamentary Conference, Canberra, Australia, 1993, (v) 40th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, Banff, Canada, 1994, (vi) 41st Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1995, (vii) 94th Inter-Parliamentary Conference, Bucharest, Romania, 1995, (viii) Special Session of the Inter-Parliamentary Council on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations, New York, 1995; attended, Conference of SAARC Speakers, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1992; led, Indian Parliamentary Delegations to several countries, Singapore, China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Japan, U.K., Germany, Bulgaria, Iran, Bangladesh, Nepal, Egypt, Israel, Syria, Soviet Union, Ethiopia, Jordan and some other countries

Other Information During the tenure of his Speakership of Lok Sabha, India had a privilege of hosting in New Delhi as many as four major international Parliamentary Conferences viz., (i) 37th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, September 1991, (ii) 89th Inter-Parliamentary Conference, April, 1993, (iii) 6th Commonwealth Parliamentary Seminar, January 1994 and (iv) 1st Conference of the Association of SAARC Speakers and Parliamentarians, July 1995; took initiative and formulated the scheme for creating seventeen Department-related Standing Committees of Parliament which were formally inaugurated on 31 March 1993; gave a new thrust to the ongoing computerization and modernization of Lok Sabha Secretariat, especially the information service to the members and they were provided with computers to get instant and up-to-date information on a wide range of activities; initiated and got started the construction of modern 'Parliament Library Building' to cater to the information needs of the members; another initiative undertaken was the starting of televising of Parliamentary proceedings in the first instance and later live telecast of Lok Sabha proceedings since 25 August 1994 within a range of 15 km. from Parliament House, besides the live telecast of the Question Hour of both the Houses of Parliament on alternate weeks throughout India; set up a modernized state of the art studio for televising parliamentary proceedings through robotic cameras; took personal interest by conceptualizing and directing six films on parliamentary practice and procedures produced by the Lok Sabha Secretariat; took initiative in starting fellowship awards by the Lok Sabha Secretariat to the researchers conducting studies on subjects related to parliamentary institutions

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