Rajkumar Dhoot

Rajkumar Dhoot (born 11 September 1955) is a Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) representing the State of Maharashtra, India and ex-president of the Apex Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry, ASSOCHAM (The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India).[1] He is also the Promoter & Co-Owner of the diversified Videocon Group of Companies.[2][3] He is from the Shiv Sena party.[4] His father, the late Shri Nandlal Madhavlal Dhoot, was an Indian Industrialist and the founder of Videocon Group.[5] His brother, Venugopal Dhoot is the Chairman & Managing Director of Videocon Industries Limited.

Rajkumar Dhoot
Profile Photo of Dhoot
MP of Rajya Sabha for Maharashtra
In office
3 April 2014 – 2 April 2020
Succeeded byPriyanka Chaturvedi
ConstituencyMaharashtra
In office
2008–2014
In office
2002–2008
Personal details
Born (1955-09-11) 11 September 1955
Ahmednagar, Maharashtra
Political partyShiv Sena
Spouse(s)Sushma Dhoot
RelationsVenugopal Dhoot
Pradipkumar Dhoot (brothers)
ChildrenShruti, Namrata, Komal, Akshay
FatherNandlal Madhavlal Dhoot
ResidenceAurangabad, Maharashtra and New Delhi, India
Alma materS.B. College, Aurangabad
(B.Com. Honors)
ProfessionPolitician, Industrialist

Early life

Dhoot graduated with honors in commerce from S.B. College, Aurangabad.[1][6]

Politics

Dhoot was first elected to the Rajya Sabha in April 2002 and served the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, Consultative Committees for the Ministry of Commerce and Industry & the Ministry of Urban Development & Poverty Alleviation. He has been a regular member of the Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Finance & Special Invitee of the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Communications & IT and for the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas. He was a special invitee to the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India). In April 2008, he was re-elected to Rajya Sabha for a second term & had been a Member of the Standing Committee on IT apart from being a Member of the Hindi Salahkar Samiti of the Ministry of Textiles. He was consecutively re-elected for a third term for the Rajya Sabha in 2014.[7]

At present, he is a Member of the Standing Committee on Health & Family Welfare. He has introduced Private Members Bills in the Rajya Sabha. His areas of focus include the prevention of suicides of farmers of Maharashtra, the welfare of pavement dwellers and slum dwellers of Mumbai.[8] He regularly writes to Union Ministers and Chief Minister of Maharashtra for the redressal of problems of Mumbai and rest of Maharashtra.[9][10]

Dhoot, being a third-term senior Parliamentarian actively campaigned with his party chief Uddhav Thackeray and other Shiv Sena leaders in key cities of Maharashtra like Kolhapur, Nashik, Shirdi, Aurangabad, Ratnagiri amongst others before the General elections 2014 and also in the Maharashtra State Assembly Elections in 2014.[11][12]

Dhoot, in the winter session of the Parliament in November 2014, introduced three bills - The Constitution (Amendment) Bill, 2014 (amendment of Article 371 on special provision with respect to the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat, The Illegal Immigrants and Missing Foreign Nationals Identification and Deportation Authority of India Bill, 2014, and The Homeless Pavement Dwellers (Welfare) Bill, 2014.[8]

Chamber work and other interests

At the end of two terms as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha, Dhoot was elected as the President of Apex Industry body, The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) by its Managing Committee on 21 February 2012.[13] He held this position till 19 July 2013 and was instrumental in leveraging the Apex Chambers’ contribution to the development of the Industry to a great degree, with several proactive and engaging events.[14]

While Dhoot held office as the Senior Vice President of ASSOCHAM in 2011-12 and earlier was an active member of the Industry body, he also holds the unique distinction of being the first Parliamentarian to become the President of ASSOCHAM. Dhoot ended his tenure with the Annual event of ASSOCHAM in July 2013, which had the Prime Minister of India as the Chief Guest. Dhoot continues to be closely associated with ASSOCHAM as its Past President and plays an active role in its affairs.[15][16]

Dhoot was president of Marathwada Industries Association, now Chamber of Marathwada Industries & Agriculture (CMIA) in 1994-95.[17]

He is a Member of India-France Parliamentary Friendship Group.

Dhoot has been a regular and active participant at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, which is a global congregation of Business leaders, political, academic and other leaders of the Global society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.

Philanthropy

In 1992, Dhoot established a Girls High school in Gangapur, Aurangabad, and 100 students were admitted to the Secondary School. In 1995, a bigger building was built, and, today, 1800 Students from First to Twelfth Standard attend the School. Dhoot gave his contribution in women empowerment by appointing only female teachers in the school. The school has well equipped computer & science labs, library, and, apart from the main subjects; tie & dye art, machine work, weaving and stitching are also taught to the Girls to make them self-reliant. Various Government Scholarships are given to the students, which are issued in the form of crossed cheques.

Dhoot also established a Vittal Mandir in Gangapur area and has a small 3-bedded hospital adjoining the Mandir which takes care of the medical needs of people of Gangapur area.

Dhoot runs a leading multi-Super Specialty Charitable Hospital - ‘Nandlal Dhoot Charitable Hospital’[18] at Aurangabad with an investment of over ₹100 crores, and from primary to all tertiary level health care facilities to help the people suffering from critical and life-threatening conditions. This hospital has fully developed Cardiac Centre and also provides radiation therapy using Cobalt-60 facilities for cancer treatment. At the hospital, all poor patients are provided free food and accommodation during treatment. Dhoot regularly promotes free medical checkups and free medicine distribution camps to help the below poverty line population in and around Aurangabad. Dhoot is also helping the patients with poor eyesight or with developing blindness by regularly conducting free eye check-up and cataract surgery camps. Every year approximately 1200 patients are benefitted from such camps.

During the infamous drought in Maharashtra in the Summer of 2013, Dhoot, in his personal capacity, arranged for Water-tankers to distribute clean drinking water for a period of 2 months amongst the poor and the drought afflicted people. He has also undertaken construction of roads in Gangapur & adjoining areas.

References
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  2. "Mr. Dhoot with PM". 19 July 2013. Archived from the original on 8 March 2014. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  3. "Videocon may exit Indonesian oil block". 5 February 2014. Archived from the original on 8 February 2014. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  4. "Mr. Dhoot with Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray". 19 July 2013. Archived from the original on 3 March 2014. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  5. Bhatt, Shephali (12 August 2015). "Independence Day Special: How Videocon changed the country's viewing experience with colour TVs". The Economic Times. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  6. "The Growth Net". Archived from the original on 26 January 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  7. "Statewise Retirement". 164.100.47.5. Archived from the original on 1 June 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  8. "Private member's bill in Rajya Sabha to ban use of white asbestos". Zee News. 28 November 2014. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  9. No byline: Press Trust of India, Mumbai, PTI (2 February 2014). "Industrialist, MP Rajkumar Dhoot demands IIT at Aurangabad". Business Standard. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  10. PTI (2 February 2014). "Industrialist, MP Rajkumar Dhoot demands IIT at Aurangabad". The Economic Times. Archived from the original on 15 February 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  11. "Senior Parliamentarian Rajkumar Dhoot attends historic Modi swearing-in ceremony as the Prime Minister". 27 May 2014. Archived from the original on 27 June 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
  12. "Senior Parliamentarian Rajkumar Dhoot attends historic Modi swearing-in ceremony as the Prime Minister". 27 May 2014. Archived from the original on 1 July 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
  13. "PM intellectually dishonest, says BJP; India Inc seeks more reforms". News18. Archived from the original on 26 January 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  14. "Mr. Dhoot with Manmohan Singh". 19 July 2013. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  15. "Mr. Dhoot on Korean investments in the manufacturing sector". 23 January 2014. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
  16. "Delay is out, Decision is in - mantra for Narendra Modi-led govt- Minister Prakash Javadekar". 23 June 2014. Archived from the original on 4 July 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
  17. "CMIA | PAST PREDIENTS". www.cmia-aurangabad.com. Archived from the original on 26 January 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  18. "Nandlal Dhoot Charitable Hospital". Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
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