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Bikram Singh Majithia is an Indian politician and a Cabinet Minister in the Punjab Government. He won 2007 Punjab Vidhan Sabha elections from the Majitha constituency and again won in 2012. He belongs to the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal and is president of its Youth Wing, Youth Akali Dal.

He was born in 1976. His father Satyajit Singh Majithia is a former Deputy Defence Minister. He is the younger brother of Bathinda MP, Harsimrat Kaur Badal and hence brother-in-law of Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab, Sukhbir Singh Badal. Bikram was married to Ganieve Grewal in November 2009. They have two Sons.

Early Life

He went to DAV public School, Patiala and Bal Bharti School, Delhi for his secondary and higher education. Later, he was a student of St. Stephens College, New Delhi where he studied for his Graduation Degree. In November 2009, he got married to Ganieve Grewal , grand-daughter of Ranjit Singh Grewal and they have two sons. He has an elder brother-Gurmehar Singh and an elder sister, Harsimrat Kaur Badal (Food Processing Minister, Government of India).

Political career

He first won the Punjab Vidhan Sabha elections from the Majitha constituency in 2007. He won again from the same constituency in 2012 assembly elections. Subsequently he was inducted into the Punjab Cabinet He is now a minister of Revenue, Rehabilitation and Disaster Management, Information & Public Relations and Non Conventional Energy.

Vision for Solar Power

For decades, Punjab has remained a power deficient state which people suffering pangs of erratic power supply hitting farmers and common people alike. There was a need to augment power supply and to supplement the available conventional power with solar power and power from waste. In Bikram Singh Majithia's governance as New and Renewable Energy Minister, Punjab, he invited entrepreneurs from across the country and the NRIs to invest in solar power sector. The result was that in a short span Punjab was able to attract investment worth Rs 4,000 crore in this sector and the solar power generation tipped to go up from a meagre 9 megawatt to 541 megawatt by 2016. The innovation in the idea was to involve farmers in setting up solar power plants on their own land where they could utilise the power so generated for their own needs and sell the surplus power to Punjab State Power Corporation which guaranteed to buy back surplus power under an agreement. The added boost came when financial institutions and banks agreed to provide loans and funds for such projects.

References

1. ^ Results Punjab State Assembly Elections 2012
2. Organisation Structure Akali Dal
3. Youth Akali Dal Website
4. Majitha Family
5. "The Big Fat Punjabi Wedding". The Tribune. 26 November 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
6. Punjab 2007
7. BJP loses one berth in new Badal Cabinet
8. "Government of Punjab".
9. Dhaliwal, Sarbjit (14 June 2015). "Punjab hikes power tariff by 10.27 pc". The Tribune. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
10. PTI, Agency (22 July 2015). "Punjab gets Rs 4,000 crore investment for solar projects". DNA India. PTI. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
11. Khanna, Ruchika .M (23 July 2015). "State to generate 2,000 MW solar power". The Tribune. Tribune News Service. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
12. Rambani, Vishal (8 May 2015). "'Power-surplus' Punjab to buy 4,000 MW during peak summer". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 16 September 2015.

1. Majithia, Bikram Singh. "Bikram Singh Majithia LinkedIn Profile". www.linkedin.com. Bikram Singh Majithia. Retrieved 16 September 2015.

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• Shiromani Akali Dal politicians
• State cabinet ministers of Punjab, India
• Punjab, India MLAs 2007–12
• 1976 births
• Living people
• Punjab, India MLAs 2012–17
• People from Amritsar district