Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be presenting the Union Budget 2024 on 23rd July 2024. Let's check out her high education and qualifications. Tap to read!
Born on August 18, 1959, in a Tamil Iyengar Brahmin family , Nirmala Sitharaman hailed from Madurai. Savitri and Narayanan Sitharaman are the parents of Nirmala.
Nirmala Sitharaman completed her Bachelor’s degree in economics from Tiruchirapalli after that she moved to Delhi to complete her Master of Arts and M.Phil in economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).
She was appointed as National Commission for Women, Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance, Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. In June 2014 she was elected to Rajya Sabha.
On September 3, 2017, Nirmala Sitharaman was appointed as the Minister of Defence. She is the second female to hold this post after Indira Gandhi and the first one to hold it full-time.
Nirmala Sitharaman was conferred with the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2019 by JNU and she was also ranked as the 34th most powerful woman in the world in 2019 by Forbes Magazine.
Nirmala Sitharaman married Parakala Prabhakar in the year 1986 and has a daughter named Parakala Vangmayi. Parakala Prabhakar was of Congress ideology while Sitharaman supported BJP.
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