Ravi Shankar Prasad becomes new Telecom Minister

NEW DELHI: Ravi Shankar Prasad, 64, has been appointed as the new minister for telecommunications, while he retains the IT and law ministries in the second innings of the Modi government.

The new BJP Lok Sabha MP from Patna Sahib, Prasad has been a three time Rajya Sabha MP, has been instrumental in delivering the Modi government’s Make in India program, with multi-crore investments from top manufacturing companies from across the world. In 2019, there were 268 mobile and ancillary manufacturing units in India. Under his leadership, India became the second largest mobile phone producers in the world in 2019 from just two mobile factories in 2014.