G. Parameshwara

Gangadharaiah Parameshwara (born 6 August 1951) is an Indian politician who serving as Home minister of Karnataka.

He is also the seventh Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka, and longest-serving President of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee for two consecutive terms.

Parameshwara was born on 6 August 1951, at Gollahalli (now known as Siddartha Nagar) in Tumkur.

He was born to Gangamalamma Chikkanna and Former MLC H. M. Gangadharaiah.

Gangadharaiah hailed from Hebbalalu village in Amruthuru hobli of Kunigal taluk, now in Magadi taluk of Ramanagara district, before shifting to Gangamalamma's village Gollahalli in Tumakuru rural, Parameshwara is the third sibling after older brother Dr G. Shivaprasad.

He studied primary education at Government School in Gollahalli (Siddartha Nagara) and Heggere, Tumkur.

He went to Sri Siddhartha High School at Siddartha Nagar, which was established by his father in 1959.

He joined Government Pre-University College in Tumkur and after Pre-University College went on to study for a B.Sc.

in agriculture in the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, followed by an M.Sc.

in agriculture at the same college.

After Post-Graduating, Parameshwara had briefly worked as Research Assistant in Department of Plant Physiology at the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore.

Later, Parameshwara went overseas and obtained a PhD from Waite Agricultural Research Centre, the University of Adelaide in Plant Physiology.

He joined the National Cadet Corps (India) at an early age.

He was an athlete, has a record 10.9 seconds of 100 metres race in University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore.

He represented Gandhi Krishi Vignana Kendra College in Inter-College/University and Karnataka state in Indian level.

He stood 4th in the world inter university athletic championship in Belgrade and got selected to train for the Olympics.

By then he received a national overseas scholarships and decided to pursue academics.

Even today Dr G Parameshwara holds the highest regard for Krishna Hebbar, PHD in physical education from Moscow who trained and encouraged him in his initial days as an athlete.

Parameshwara was an Administrative Officer in Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology (SSIT Tumkur) when he came back from Australia.

Before this, Parameshwara had briefly worked as Research assistant in Department of Plant Physiology at UAS, Bangalore.

In mid 1988, he helped his father to establish Sri Siddhartha Medical College, Hospital & Research Centre, which was earlier rejected by Medical Council of India & Ramakrishna Hegde's Government but Bangalore University had approved and later Supreme Court of India gave permission to sanction Sri Siddhartha Medical College.

In 1989, for the inauguration of the Sri Siddhartha Medical College, Parameshwara along with the Education Minister S. M. Yahya and Mallikarjun Kharge who was then President of the Sri Siddhartha Education Society, went on to invite Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, when Parameshwara went for the third time with S. M. Yahya to meet Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi told Parameshwara to enter politics and eventually S. M. Yahya took Parameshwara to then AICC general secretary Mohsina Kidwai and made him Joint Secretary of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee.

G. Parameshwara was chairman on board for Karnataka State Universities Act, 2000 and then he was Higher Education minister in S. M. Krishna Cabinet who piloted a Bill (Amending Act 10 of 2004) in February 2004 for an exclusive University in Tumkur.

This act carved out half of Bangalore University to make Tumkur University at Tumkur for Tumkur, Kolar and Bangalore Rural.

In the beginning, they created Dr Ambedkar Bhavan for office purposes about 3 years as 200 acres land for the university wasn't available in Tumkur.

Later vast land of Govt.

Science & Arts College was used for University.

On 12 January 2007, Tumkur University was inaugurated by Governor T. N. Chaturvedi and Chief Minister H. D. Kumaraswamy after 3 years of passing Bill.

It was delayed due to lack of infrastructure and funds from the successor coalition government and then Chief Minister Dharam Singh who had announced the withdrawal of the government order which froze the setting up of Tumkur university.

Dr G. Parameshwara Speaking at the Teachers Day celebration organised by the directorate of collegiate education, Parameshwara said the government had already commenced recruitment of college teachers.

"We would like it to be 50 per cent for women. We are considering it," he said.

And also he signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Australian Government for teachers to undertake an exchange programme for faculty improvement.

In SM Krishna tenure, Dr G Parameshwara created a new educational block for Madhugiri which comprised Madhugiri, Koratagere, Sira and Pavagada.

Dr G Parameshwara signed MoU with Germany's Bavaria Police to improve Department of Home Affairs of Karnataka.

A detailed study of the Bavarian system of policing was conducted during his visit to Germany.

He Said, "In Bavaria, top priority is given to the safety of women, children and senior citizens. They have successfully implemented a people-friendly policing system. Over 82% of the population in Bavaria is happy with the system. The same model will be implemented in Bengaluru". As per the MoU, police personnel from Bengaluru will be sent to Bavaria for training.

Bavarian officials will also visit Bengaluru for this purpose.

Awareness will be raised among schoolchildren on traffic and law and order with the help of Bavarian Police.

He set up a coastal police academy over 25 acres in Udupi, and also noted that the regular police currently being appointed to the coastal units were not trained for swimming in the ocean or handling other work specific to their area of operation.

"So now we intend to make separate recruitments for the coastal police and train them at the academy," he said.