Alphons Kannanthanam appointed as MoS in ministry of IT

Former Kerala IAS officer Alphons Kannanthanam has been appointed as minister of state in the ministry of electronics and IT. In a major cabinet reshuffle, the Narendra Modi government elevated four junior ministers to the Cabinet rank and inducted nine new faces. The new inductions include four former civil servants with the 1979 batch, Kerala cadre officer being one of them.

The 65 year old Kannanthanam is a former DDA commissioner and popularly known as Delhi’s Demolition man for his activist stance that led to removal of around 15,000 illegal buildings in the national capital.

He quit the IAS in 2006, with eight years of his tenure remaining and was elected a Member of the Legislative Assembly, from Kanjirappally in Kottayam District, Kerala. Kannanthanam is also a practicing advocate in the High court and the Supreme Court of India.

Apart from the mandate of the Digital India campaign, the ministry of electronics and IT is also leading the digital payments campaign of the government.

In the third revamp of his Cabinet, Modi gave India its first full time woman Defence Minister in form of Nirmala Sitharaman.

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