Dear Comrades,
Jyotiraditya Scindia, India's 40-year old minister of state for commerce and industry and one of the country's dynamic young leaders, is overseeing unusual expansion of India's exports industry that aims to cross US$500 billion by 2014.
A year after finishing his MBA from Stanford University, which followed his BA in Economics from Harvard, Scindia became one of India's youngest parliamentarians at the age of 31, representing Guna constituency in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. He had earlier working experience in Merrill Lynch in Los Angeles, the United Nations in New York, and Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong and Mumbai.
In 2008, Scindia caught India's attention as minister of state for communications and information technology when he modernized the aging postal service in "Project Arrow". Dingy, derelict post offices across the country were renovated to Internet-enabled multi-utility centers of the fashionably re-branded India Post, earning his ministry the Prime Minister's Award for Excellence in Public Administration for 2008-09.
By Raja Murthy
Asia Times
