Arvind Bellad (born 3 August 1969) is an Indian politician, who is a

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, representing Hubli-Dharwad West constituency since May 2013. Bellad is a member of the

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Early life and education

Born on 3 August 1969, Bellad is the son of veteran

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leader and former MLA

Chandrakant Bellad Chandrakant Bellad is the former member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly and an Indian Politician. He first contested 1983 Karnataka Legislative Assembly elections as a Janata Party candidate from Dharwad Assembly constituency and lost by ...

and Leelavathi Bellad. He is the youngest among five children, he graduated from KE Boards High School and Karnataka Science College Dharwad completed his engineering from

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, Dharwad. He pursued his

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in business management from

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in France. He is married to Smriti Bellad and has two children, Agastya and Pracchi.

Political career

Arvind Bellad entered politics in the year 2013. He contested from Hubli-Dharwad West constituency of Karnataka State Legislative Assembly from

(BJP) and won. He represented BJP in the state assembly twice from Dharwad district. Some important activities of Bellad- * Started LKG and UKG in government schools. He noticed the dip in school attendance of Govt run schools. After discussing with parents of the children he started preschool as a pilot project in one school. This experiment was successful which led him to extend this idea to 62 govt schools. There was a rise in the student intake due to this. * Campaigned for setting up of an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Dharwad along with some others. IIT has been set up at Dharwad due to these efforts. * Worked for developing and implementing clean energy in rural areas. Conducted the study, prepared a report and started implementing it. * Created a mobile phone app to listen to grievance of the people of his constituency.

References

External links

Karnataka Legislative Assembly
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bellad, Arvind 1969 births Living people Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Karnataka Karnataka MLAs 2013–2018 Karnataka MLAs 2018–2023 INSEAD alumni