BJP leader and former Union minister Vijay Sampla has been appointed as the chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) for a second time. Sampla had resigned as the NCSC chairman ahead of the Punjab elections and had contested the polls. The official order for his appointment was issued by President Ram Nath Kovind.
Buy Prime Test Series for all Banking, SSC, Insurance & other exams
Sampla, a prominent Dalit politician from Punjab, began his political career in 1998 as the sarpanch of Sofipind village in Jalandhar Cantonment. He has also served in the Punjab government. He was the chairman of the Punjab Khadi Board from 2008 to 2012 and the chairman of the Punjab State Forest Development Corporation in 2014. He was then elected to the Lok Sabha from Hoshiarpur and became a Union minister in 2015.
India is moving fast towards clean and green energy. Solar power is one of the…
India’s first Petroglyph Conservation Park is set to be developed at the Sindhu Ghat in…
The basketball world mourns the loss of Oscar Schmidt who was one of the greatest…
India has made great progress in space science, but every big journey begins with a…
To boost the strategic cooperation in defense India and Russia have operationalized the Reciprocal Exchange…
Blue Origin successfully landed the reused booster of its New Glenn rocket for the first…