Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss completed his MBBS from
Madras Medical College and then worked for a year and a
half as a medical practitioner at Nallalam, a small village
near Tindivanam. In 2003, Anbumani did a course on
macro-economics from the London School of Economics.
He was a member of the Rajya Sabha, and was the
Minister of Health and Family Welfare in the Central
Government from 2004 to 2009 as a part of the UPA
Government. As the Union Health Minister, Anbumani
established the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM)
in 2005 to provide primary health care to women and
children living in the rural parts of India. His other
achievements included introducing 108 Ambulance services
throughout India, banning smoking in public places,
bringing pictorial warnings in tobacco products, banning
Gutka in the country, eradicating Polio in India,
introducing the Food Safety Standards Act of India (
FSSAI), and initiating the Traditional Knowledge Digital
Library (TKDL). He was elected to the Lok Sabha, from
Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu in 2014. He is the President
of the Pattali Makkal Katchi party, presently a part of
the NDA (National Democratic Alliance). Anbumani
also heads a NGO Pasumai Thaayagam, which was
founded in 1995. The NGO focuses on Environmental
Protection, Sustainable Development and Social Equity. It
has planted millions of trees, desilted hundreds of lakes
and built check dams to conserve water.
