Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad is an

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and retired

pediatric surgeon Pediatric surgery is a medical specialty, subspecialty of surgery involving the surgery of fetuses, infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. History Pediatric surgery arose in the middle of the 1879 century as the surgical care of birt ...

. He is a member of the

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, and serves as a member of the

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from

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. He was the

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twice. Karad became a Minister of State in the

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in the reshuffle of Prime Minister Modi's cabinet in the second term.

Early life

Karad was born in Chikhali,

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, Maharashtra on 16 July 1956. His father was Kishan Rao and his mother was Gayabai Kishanrao Karad. He married Anjali on 21 December 1981 and has three sons. Karad studied at Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University in Aurangabad and the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Mumbai, and holds a

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and a Magister Chirurgiae in

pediatric surgery Pediatric surgery is a subspecialty of surgery involving the surgery of fetuses, infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. History Pediatric surgery arose in the middle of the 1879 century as the surgical care of birth defects required ...

. He owns the Karad Hospital, a 50 bed multi-specialty hospital, in Aurangabad.

Career

Karad served as the deputy mayor of the

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from 1997-1998. He served two terms as mayor of Aurangabad (2000-2001 and 2005-2006). He served as Director of

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from 2018-2020. Karad was elected to the Rajya Sabha in April 2020. He became a member of the Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas, and the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Power and Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in June 2020. Karad was appointed as a Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance on 7 July 2021. Karad provided emergency medical aid to a passenger suffering from

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while flying onboard

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Flight 171 from Delhi to Mumbai on 16 November 2021. Karad, and another member of Parliament

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, again provided emergency medical aid to a passenger while flying onboard

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Flight 443 from Delhi to Aurangabad on 17 June 2022.

References

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