Dr. Sunil Panjabrao Deshmukh (born 28th May, 1958).
He belongs to the Indian National Congress (INC). He was also the Minister of State for Finance and Planning, Public Works and Energy in the Government of Maharashtra.
He was the guardian minister for Amravati and Bhandara Districts of Vidarbha, Maharashtra. Additionally, he also serves as the ex-officio Vice-Chairman of the Maharashtra State Electricity Board’s holding company and as the co-chairman of Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation Ltd.
From October 2004 to December 2008, he held the portfolios for Water Resources, Command Area Development and Parliamentary Affairs in addition to Finance and Planning in former Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh’s cabinet. He was also the Vice-Chairman of the Vidarbha Irrigation Development Corporation Ltd. from 1999 to 2004.
He is a formerly practicing Radiologist. He completed his MBBS from the Government Medical College, Nagpur in 1981. From the same institution, he completed his MD (Radiology) in 1986.
He has been elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly twice from the constituency of Amravati. Both the times, he defeated his nearest contestant, Jagdish Motilal Gupta of the BJP by about 10,000 votes and about 32,000 votes respectively.
He is widely credited with changing the face of modern Amravati. It is due to his efforts that a number of important projects were implemented for the betterment of the constituency. These include the Integrated Road Development Project (IRDP), the construction of a Superspeciality Hospital in the city and the sanctioning of a Five-Star MIDC and the introduction of the Advantage Amravati plan, due to which amravati has attracted considerable industrial and commercial investment. Besides, he has also worked for the upliftment of the backward classes and slum dwellers by bringing the gharkul yojana to Amravati, which provided concrete houses to such people for merely Rs. 100. Official figures state that nearly 20,000 such houses have been constructed in Amravati.
Ongoing projects under him were the construction of a state-of-the-art airport at Amravati and the sanctioning of a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) near Amravati, so as to attract industries and generate employment opportunities.
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