MOST IMP FOR TET EXAM : RAMNATH KOVIND FULL DETAIL
Ram Nath Kovind (born 1 October 1945) is an Indian politician who will
succeed the incumbent president Pranab Mukherjee as the President of
India on 25 July 2017.[He was the Governor of Bihar from 2015 to 2017.
He had also served as the Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from 1994 to
2006.
Kovind was born on 1 October 1945 in Kanpur Dehat, Uttar Pradesh. His
father was a farmer. He holds a Bachelors degree in commerce and a LLB
from DAV College, (affiliated with Kanpur University)
After graduating in law from a Kanpur college, Kovind went to Delhi to
prepare for the civil services examination. He passed this exam on his
third attempt, but he did not join as he was selected for an allied
service instead of IAS and thus started practicing law.[9] He was
Central Government Advocate in the Delhi High Court from 1977 to 1979
and served as a Central Government standing counsel in the Supreme Court
from 1980 to 1993. In 1978, he became an advocate-on-record of the
Supreme Court of India. He practiced in the Delhi High Court and Supreme
Court for about 16 years until 1993. He was also enrolled as an
advocate in 1971 with the bar council of Delhi. As an advocate he
provided free legal aid to weaker sections of society, women and the
poor under the Free Legal Aid Society in New Delhi.[8] He also served as
the personal assistant of Prime Minister of India Morarji Desai in
1977-1978
He was elected and became a Rajya Sabha MP from the state of Uttar
Pradesh in April 1994. He served a total of twelve years, two
consecutive terms, until March 2006. As a member of parliament he served
on the Parliamentary Committee for Welfare of Scheduled Castes/Tribes,
Home Affairs, Petroleum and Natural Gas, Social Justice and Empowerment,
Law and Justice. He also served as the chairman of the Rajya Sabha
House Committee. During his career as a parliamentarian, under M.P.
L.A.D. Scheme, he focused on education in rural areas by helping in
construction of school buildings in Utt hiar Pradesh and Uttrakhand. As a
member of parliament, he visited Thailand, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore,
Germany, Switzerland, France, the United Kingdom and the United States
on study tours.
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