Eduardo Faleiro

Eduardo Faleiro is an Indian politician, and former federal minister from Goa. He is currently (September 2006), the Commissioner for non-resident Indian affairs for the Government of Goa.

Faleiro was born in Raia, in the then Portuguese colony of Goa, on August 30, 1940. He is the was a Union Cabinet minister at the Indian federal government in New Delhi from 1986 to 1996. Earlier, he was a member of the legislative assembly of Goa for a short while, before shifting to national-level politics. Recently, when the Indian National Congress, a party he has associated with for most of his political career, was out of power, Faleiro was a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament.

He is also a lawyer, who has trained both in India and Portugal.

Below is a list of posts held by him:

• 1971-1976: Member, Goa Legislative Assembly
• 1974-1976: Deputy Leader, CLP (I), Goa Legislative Assembly
• 1977: Elected to the Sixth Lok Sabha
• 1980: Re-elected to the Seventh Lok Sabha
• 1982-1986: Chairman, Economic Development Corporation
• 1984: Elected to the Eighth Lok Sabha for the third consecutive time
• 1985-1986: Chairman, House Committee
• May 1986 to February 1988: Union Minister of State, External Affairs February 1988 to December 1989: Union Minister of State, Economic Affairs (Finance)
• 1989-1990: Elected to the Ninth Lok Sabha for the fourth time
• 1990: Member, Committee of Privileges; Member, Consultative Committee; Ministry of Planning and Program Implementation
• 1991: Elected to the Tenth Lok Sabha for the fifth time
• 1992: Leader of the Indian Delegation to the United Nations
• June 23, 1991 to January 1993: Union Minister of State, External Affairs
• January 18, 1993 to April 1996 – Union Minister of State, Chemicals & Fertilizers, Ocean Development, Electronics, Parliamentary Affairs
• 1995: Vice Chairperson of Independent World Commission on Oceans
• July 26, 1999: Elected Member of Rajya Sabha (Council of States.)

In March 2006, Mr Faleiro was appointed as Commissioner for NRI Affairs by the Government of Goa, with the rank of a Cabinet Minister.

2007: Chairman of Universal Peace Federation of India(NGO in Consultative Status in the Social and Economic Council of the United Nations)

==External links==

• Eduardo Faleiro, official page
• Links via Google.com
• Once I went to inaugurate a road... (Eduardo Faleiro)
• Konkani Controversy - note by Eduardo Faleiro, former Union Minister
• US position on Iraq is total ‘dadagiri’
• Goanet Reader: Wanted: an Asian perspective on the freedom ofreligion (Eduardo Faleiro)
• Education for All (Eduardo Faleiro, MP)