we will tell you about Any Aga who is a member of the Rajya Sabha. According to Forbes, her net worth is about 210 crores USD as of 2022. She was also awarded Padma Shri for her social work. In this blog we are going to tell you the Anu Aga Biography, so read this full blog to get the complete information.
Anu Aga Bio
Anu Aga is an Indian Billionaire businesswoman and a social worker. She led Thermax which is an energy and environment engineering business and she served as its chairperson from 1996 to 2004. She was one of the eight richest Indian women. In 2007, according to Forbes magazine, she was part of the 40 richest Indians by net worth. She received the Mumbai Women of the Decade Achievers Award by ALL Ladies League which is the all ladies wing of ASSOCHAM. After retiring from Thermax, she took part in social work. In 2010, she was awarded Padma Shri for her social work by the Government of India. Currently, she is the chairperson of Teach For India. On 26 April 2012, she was elected to Rajya Sabha, the Upper house of parliament, by then-president Pratibha Patil.
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Early life and Education
Anu Aga was born on 3 August 1942 in Bombay to a Parsi Zoroastrian family. Currently, she is 79 years old as of 2021.
She has completed B.A. in Economics from St Xavier’s College, Mumbai. She has done post-graduation in medical and psychiatric social work from the prestigious Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai. She was also a Fulbright scholar and studied in the United States for four months.
Career
In 1985, she started her career in Thermax. Later she headed its human resources division from 1991 to 1996. After the death of her husband, she took over Thermax as its chairperson. Then in 2004, she retired and was succeeded by her daughter and company vice-chairperson Meher Pudumjee. Then she remained on the company’s board of directors and was involved with social work.
After that, she was nominated to the Rajya Sabha. She served as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha. She served as a member of the Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice from May 2012 to May 2014 and then from September 2014 till now. She was a member of the Parliamentary Forum on Children from August 2012 to May 2014. Moreover, she was a member of the Committee on Empowerment of Women from September 2012 to September 2013. And she was also a member of the Committee on Commerce from August 2012 to December 2012.
Personal life
She married Rohinton Aga who was a graduate of the Harvard Business School. They have a daughter named Meher and a son named Kurush. Her husband died in 1996 due to a massive stroke. A year later, her son Kurush also died at the age of 25. Presently she lives in Pune, Maharashtra.
Her daughter, Meher Pudumjee, is currently serving as chairperson of Thermax which she took over from her mother in 2004.
Awards
She was awarded the Mumbai Women of the Decade Achievers Award.
So this article was a brief description of her personal life and political career.
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