10 Rajya Sabha members elected unopposed to AIIMS bodies, panels

Ten Rajya Sabha members have been elected unopposed to various statutory bodies, including governing bodies of AIIMS institutes across the country, according to notifications issued by the Rajya Sabha Secretariat. Seven members were elected to AIIMS governing bodies: Gulam Ali to AIIMS Awantipora, Ashok Kumar Mittal to AIIMS Bathinda, Rajneesh Kumar Agrawal to AIIMS Bhopal, Birendra Prasad Baishya to AIIMS Guwahati, Sat Paul Sharma to AIIMS Vijaypur, IS Inbadurai to AIIMS Madurai, and Madan Rathore to AIIMS Jodhpur.

Other appointments include Lahar Singh Siroya to the Central Silk Board, Sikander Kumar to the Council of the National Institutes of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management, and Rekha Sharma to the National Assisted Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy Board. Members were also elected without contest to the Public Accounts Committee, the Committee on Public Undertakings, and the Committee on Welfare of Other Backward Classes, as the number of candidates matched vacancies.