Asst. Professor of Chemistry 1977-1980 Member of Indian Audit and Accounts Service 1981-83 Member of Indian Police Service 1983 Member of Indian Administrative Service 1984-99 Served as Collector & Dist. Magistrate in Mandya District, Karnataka, Deputy Secretary, Forests, Deputy Secretary, PWD & Irrigation and Deputy Resident Commissioner, Karnataka Bhavan, Commissioner, Social Welfare & Commissioner, Minority Welfare, Officer on Special Duty in the State Planning Board till May 2004. Under Government of India - worked as P.S to the Minister for Railways, Social Welfare, G. M. Handloom & Handicrafts Exports Corporation.
Positions held
Elected twice as Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha - June 2004 & June 2010 Served as Member, Standing Committee on Energy, Information & Technology, Coal & Steel, Chemicals & Fertilizers, Consultative Committee for Social Justice Ministry, Parliamentary Committee on SC/ST welfare, Committee on Computers to Members of Rajya Sabha, Business Advisory Committee of Rajya Sabha, Parliamentary Forum on Population & Public Health, IPU Global Advisory Group on HIV/AIDS, Animal Welfare Board of India, Khadi & Village Industries Board of India, Secretary, Indian National Congress, Congress Party in charge for the Delimitation Exercise & Indo-US Parliamentarians Forum. Presently, Member, Public Accounts Committee, Standing Committee on Law & Personnel, Standing Committee on Social Justice, Consultative Committee on Road Transport & National Highways, Committee on Subordinate Legislation, India-Bhutan & India-Pakistan Parliamentarians Forum, Secretary General, Forum of SC/ST Parliamentarians, Secretary General, Forum of Parliamentarians on HIV/AIDS.
Contributions
MPLADS Taken up special project under MPLADS in Prakasam & Guntur Districts for construction of 350 community halls cum libraries, establishing 250 safe drinking water units & 2 Girls Hostels with the assistance under CSR.. Inter-Parliamentary Union Served as Vice President of the first Standing Committee, Attended 112th, 114th, 116th, 118th and 122nd IPU Assemblies, worked as Rapporteur, drafting Committee Member and contributed vastly during the proceedings PGA International Council As member of the International Council of Parliamentarians for Global Action, participated in number of International Seminars and workshops on International Peace and Security, Sustainable Development, Democracy and other related issues and contributed qualitatively.. HIV/AIDS work As Secretary General of the Parliamentarians Forum on HIV/AIDS, assisted in organizing Legislators Fora in various States, conducted National Seminar of elected representative in 2003, Youth Parliament on HIV/AIDS in 2004, North East Zonal Convention of MLAs in Guwahati in 2005, National Convention of ZP Presidents & Mayors in 2006, Youth Parliament on HIV/AIDS in 2008, National Workshop for elected representative in 2011. Participated in the World AIDS Congress in Bangkok in 2004, International Congress on AIDS in Asia-Pacific, Japan in 2005, World AIDS Congress in Toronto in 2006, Vienna in 2010, ICAAP, Colombo in 2007, SAARC regional seminars in Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar and Dhaka during 2005-07. Participated in the Euro Asia Leadership Workshop on AIDS in Moscow in October 2007, First Global parliamentarians Meeting on HIV/AIDS in Manila in Nov 2007. Member of the IPU Advisory Group on HIV/AIDS.,
