Bratya Basu

Bratya Basu
Bratya Basu at a State Theatre event, Kolkata, 2023
Minister of Education, Government of West Bengal
Incumbent
Assumed office
10 May 2021
GovernorJagdeep Dhankhar
Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee
Preceded byPartha Chatterjee
In office
20 May 2011 – 20 May 2014
Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee
Preceded byPartha De
Succeeded byPartha Chatterjee
Minister of Information Technology and Electronics
In office
5 October 2018 – 10 May 2021
GovernorKeshari Nath Tripathi
Jagdeep Dhankhar
Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee
Succeeded byRatna De
Minister for Information Technology and Electronics, Government of West Bengal
In office
20 May 2016 – 5 October 2018
GovernorKeshari Nath Tripathi
Jagdeep Dhankhar
Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee
Preceded byPartha Chatterjee
Succeeded byAmit Mitra
Minister of Tourism, Government of West Bengal
In office
20 May 2014 – 12 May 2016
GovernorM. K. Narayanan
D. Y. Patil (additional charge)
Keshari Nath Tripathi
Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee
Preceded byKrishnendu Narayan Choudhury
Succeeded byGoutam Deb
Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office
2011
Preceded byRekha Goswami
ConstituencyDum Dum
Personal details
Born (1969-09-25) 25 September 1969 (age 55)
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
NationalityIndian
Political partyTrinamool Congress
Alma materPresidency College, Kolkata
University of Calcutta

Bratyabrata Basu Roy Chowdhury (born 25 September 1969),[1] also known as Bratya Basu, is an Indian actor, stage director, playwright, film director, professor and politician who has been the Education Minister of West Bengal since 2021. He has also assumed the same office in the First Mamata Banerjee ministry. In May 2016, Basu was assigned the portfolios of Tourism, Science Technology and Bio-Technology, and Information Technology and Electronics.[2][3][4] He has been elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly, from the Dum Dum constituency since the 2011 Assembly Election of West Bengal. Basu is presently the Chairperson of Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi and Minerva Natyasanskriti Charchakendra under the governance of the Department of Information and Cultural Affairs, West Bengal.[5]

  1. ^ Bratya Basu, Natak samagra (collected plays), Ananda Publishers, 2004
  2. ^ "The Ministry". The Telegraph. Calcutta, India. 21 May 2011. Archived from the original on 26 October 2012. Retrieved 21 May 2011.
  3. ^ "Bratya shifted to tourism, Partha new education minister, Mitra to see IT also". The Statesman. 28 May 2014. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  4. ^ "West Bengal: In significant reshuffle, two ministers allotted crucial portfolios". India Today. 18 November 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  5. ^ "PBA reconstituted with Bratya as Chairman". Millennium Post. 20 January 2023. Retrieved 20 January 2023.