Lovely singh son of buta singh biography

He implemented the EWS Economically Weaker Section quota and the Laadli scheme to assist the underprivileged in accessing quality education. As a result of his efforts, the dropout rate in government schools reduced significantly, from 7. Lovely implemented the regularization of nearly colonies across Delhi and introduced the Delhi Development of Urban Village Scheme, which benefited urban villages and covered 45 lakh people.

He also took the initiative to develop the slums into flats and granted ownership rights to the slum dwellers. As Transport Minister, Lovely was solely responsible for replacing the Blue Line buses with Low Floor buses, which more than doubled the number of buses and significantly increased road safety in Delhi. He also upgraded the entire Delhi bus fleet to CNG in 6 months.

Additionally, he is credited with centralizing and interlinking all transport authorities in Delhi. WATCH Arvinder Singh Lovely, newly appointed president of the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee, says, "It is true that the performance of Congress has not been good in the last few years, but seeing the atmosphere in Delhi and the country today, people are looking towards… pic.

On 28 April , he resigned from the post of Delhi Congress chief. The first metro station to open in East Delhi was Gandhinagar. In addition, he sanctioned the Signature Bridge construction, and laid its foundation stone, marking the beginning of the construction of the bridge. Arvinder Singh Lovely has been the longest standing Education Minister in Delhi, bringing in many reforms that stand until today.

He introduced the Point System of admissions into schools, aiming to abolish bias and corruption in the admissions processes. His efforts to increase inclusiveness in the schools resulted in higher enrollment rates and lower dropout rates. Inheriting a dropout rate of 7. Lovely regularised almost colonies across Delhi and introduced Delhi Development of Urban Village Scheme, benefitting urban villages covering 45 lakh people.

He undertook development of slums into flats and granted ownership rights to the slum dwellers. Lovely was single-handedly responsible for replacing the Blue Line buses with Low Floor buses, and more than doubled number of buses, significantly increasing road safety in Delhi. In his tenure as Transport Minister, he sanctioned the monorail addressing the congestion problem and introduced budget Radio Taxis.

Archived at the Wayback Machine. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. On 26 January Singh sent a fax to Abdul Kalam offering to resign his post. He was very closely involved with Indira Gandhi in Operation Blue Star and as a minister, he oversaw the reconstruction of the Golden Temple following that exercise. We provide you with the latest breaking news and videos straight from the entertainment industry.

Facebook Instagram Twitter Youtube. News Fashion Gadgets Lifestyle Video. The proposal was shot down by his namesake Arvinder Singh Lovely , who was the Delhi Gurudwara election and administration minister at that time.

Lovely singh son of buta singh biography

In , he left Congress to join BJP. He died due to cardiac arrest in November Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools.