Jitendra Satish Awhad

He worked in Kores India Limited, Thane as Asst. labour Officer from 1988 to 1995.
Dr. Jitendra Awhad holds a Doctorate from Mumbai University, the thesis being "The history of Socio-Religious movement in Maharashtra, a sub-alternate view"

EARLY NON POLITICAL CAREER :

1980-82 : General Secretary of Thane District Youth Congress
1987-88 : Representative of the Maharashtra Institute of Labour
1988-91 : Maharashtra Pradesh National Students Union of India's (NSUI) Chief Secretary
1991-93 : General Secretary of the NSUI, and also from 1991
1991 onwards: President of the Akhil Bharitya Vanjara Youth Association
1993-98 : President of Thane Municipal Council Educational Panel
1996 : Youth Congress President for Maharashtra
1999 : First National President of NCP (Youth).

POLITICAL CAREER :
Feb 2002 – 2008 - After the formation of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Awhad was elected as the first National President of NCP (Youth). From here he entered main stream politics. He was elected as a Member of the Legislative Council of Maharashtra, and again re-elected as an MLC in March 2008 for a five-year term. 
13th October 2009 - He was elected as a Member of Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra from the Mumbra-Kalwa Constituency.

16th October 2009 - He contested M.L.A Election for the first time.
Since 2002, he holds the post of Senate member of Mumbai University and also District President of NCP-Thane. He also holds the post of President of the Indian Pilots Guild, the union of the airline pilots of Air India. He is the President of Thane District Nationalist Congress Party. 

SANGHARSH:
He is also credited with popularizing and organizing the festival of Krishna Janmashtami or Dahi Handi, through his NGO Sangharsh.

Every year lakhs of people visit the festival, especially groups of youth from Thane, Mumbai and Navi Mumbai to participate in the festival by forming human pyramids and winning huge prizes. He has also managed to invite Human Pyramid groups from Spain for this festival and has created world records for the highest pyramids of 9 layers. 

ACHIEVEMENTS:

As Minister of Horticulture of Maharashtra state, Dr. Jitendra Awhad met with Shri Amitabh Bachchan and discussed the chances of him being the brand for state's horticulture to encourage the farmers, promote their produce and ensure quality for consumers. Mr. Bachchan agreed to do so and is the Ambassador for Horticulture in the state. 

Dr. Jitendra Awhad started an initiative called “Coffee with students” to connect and resolve issues of medical students across the state. In the first month alone, cities like Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Aurangabad, Kolhapur, Nagpur, Dhule, Solapur have been covered and effective measures have been taken to improve the situations for Students and also staff.