Aravind Bellad profile
Bengaluru: Arvind Chandrakant Bellad was born in August 3, 1969, in Bagewadi of Belgavi district.
Second-time MLA of BJP, Arvind Bellad, representing Hubli-Dharwad West constituency since 2013 and reelected in 2018 Assembly elections.
Arvind is the son of veteran BJP leader late Chandrakant Bellad and Smt Leelavathi C Bellad. The youngest among five children.
His early schooling in KE Boards High School and Karnataka Science College Dharwad completed a Mechanical engineering degree from SDM College of Engineering, Dharwad. He has also completed his PGDM in Business Management from INSEAD, France.
Mr. Bellad has started LKG and UKG in government schools after he noticed the dip in school attendance of government schools. He discussed with parents of the children, started preschool as a pilot project in one school. This experiment was successful, which led him to extend this idea to 62 government schools. There was a rise in the student intake due to his initiatives.
Mr. Bellad has started a campaign for the 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.
