Nirmala: Smt

Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman assumed charge today as the Union Minister of Finance & Corporate Affairs in New Delhi. Smt. Sitharaman was greeted at the office in North Block by Finance Secretary Dr. T.V. Somanathan and other Secretaries of the Ministry of Finance and Corporate Affairs. She expressed her sincere gratitude to Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi for giving her the opportunity to work as the Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister again and serve India and its people under his ... Learn about the biography, education and political career of Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, the current Finance Minister and Minister of Corporate Affairs of India. She has held various positions in the BJP, the National Commission for Women and the Ministry of Defence. Nirmala Sitharaman (born August 18, 1959, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India) is an Indian politician and economist who was first appointed as the minister of finance and minister of corporate affairs in the central government in May 2019, becoming the country’s first woman to hold either position full time. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Bhutan visit was briefly delayed after her flight made an emergency landing at Bagdogra Airport in Siliguri. She is safe and expected to resume her official ...