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Bikram Singh Majithia is a politician and proficient leader of Shiromani Akali Dal party of Punjab and is presently serving as minister of Revenue, Rehabilitation and Disaster Management, Information & Public Relations and Non Conventional Energy in Punjab government.

Birth and Family

He was born on 1st march 1975 into the family of Sardar Satyajit Singh Majithia and Sukhmanjas Kaur. His father Sardar Satyajit Singh Majithia, though maintaining distance from political body, was highly respected in social, panthic and administrative circles. The present day Khalsa College Amritsar rose to its pristine glory during his tenure as president. He continues to serve Khalsa College Amritsar as president. Bikram Singh Majithia has an elder sister Harsimrat Kaur Badal, who is Union Cabinet Minister of Food Processing in the Government of India and Member of Parliament from Bathinda. He is married to Ganieve Grewal , the granddaughter of Sardar Ranjit Singh Grewal.

Education

Bikram Singh Majithia completed his secondary and higher education from DAV public School, Patiala and Bal Bharti School, Delhi. He did his graduation from St. Stephens College, New Delhi. After the completion of his studies he started managing his family’s industrial business as well as agriculture business and took it to new heights.

Political Career

Bikram Singh Majithia was a prominent figure in the Shiromani Akali Dal campaign for the 2007 and 2012 Assembly elections. While in 2007, the party fought a formidable Congress Government, in 2012 Shiromani Akali Dal returnd to power consecutively for the second term. Majithia became the president of Youth Akali Dal in 2011. He won from Majithia Assembly Constituency by a margin of 23,000 votes in year 2007 and by 47581 votes in 2012 Assembly election.

Vision for Solar Power

For decades, Punjab has remained a power deficient state with people suffering pangs of erratic power supply hitting farmers and common people alike. Naturally, there was a need to augment power supply and to supplement the available conventional power with solar power and power from waste. When Bikram Singh Majithia took over as New and Renewable Energy Minister, Punjab, he invited entrepreneurs from across the country and the NRIs to invest in solar power sector. The result was that in a short span Punjab was able to attract investment worth Rs 4,000 crore in this sector and the solar power generation tipped to go up from a meager 9 megawatt to 541 megawatt by 2016. The innovation in the idea was to involve farmers in setting up solar power plants on their own land where they could utilize the power so generated for their own needs and sell the surplus power to Punjab State Power Corporation which guaranteed to buy back surplus power under an agreement. The added boost came when financial institutions and banks agreed to provide loans and funds for such projects.

References

1. Punjab’s dream of a solar state: 200 MW by March 2015.

2. “The big Fat Punjabi Wedding” by Neha Walia The Tribune 26th November 2009

3. Punjab to generate 4,200 MW solar power by 2022: Bikram Singh Majithia HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times 5th May, 2015

4. Provide easy credit for solar power projects: Bikram Singh Majithia Hindustan Times 24th June, 2015.

5. Results Punjab Assembly Elections 2007

6. Results Punjab Assembly Elections 2012

7. Government of Punjab

• Shiromani Akali Dal politicians
• State cabinet ministers of Punjab, India
• Punjab, India MLAs 2007–12
• 1975 births
• Living people
• Punjab, India MLAs 2012–17
• People from Amritsar district