| Positions
            Held: |  | 
          
            | 1994-95 | Member, Joint
            Parliamentary Committee to inquire into Irregularities in Securities and Banking
            Transactions Member, Committee on Finance
 | 
          
            | 1994-95
            and 1997 onwards
 | Member, Public
            Accounts Committee Member, Committee of Privileges
 | 
          
            | 1995
            onwards | Member, Committee on
            External Affairs | 
          
            | 1996-97 | Member, Committee on
            Official Language | 
          
            | 1996
            and 18 Aug, 1998 onwards | Member, Panel of
            Vice-Chairman Rajya Sabha | 
          
            | July
            1998 | Re-elected to Rajya
            Sabha | 
          
            | Aug.
            1998 onwards | Member, General
            Purposes Committee | 
          
            |  | Member, Consultative
            Committee for the Ministry of Defence | 
          
            |  | Chairman, Sardar Patel
            Foundation Committee | 
          
            | Dec.
            1999 onwards | Chairman, Joint
            Committee on Patents (Second Amendment) Bill, 1999 | 
          
            |  | Member, Select
            Committee on Prevention of Money Laundering Bill, 1999 | 
          
            | Jan.
            2000 onwards | Member, Joint
            Committee on salaries and Allowances of Members of Parliament. | 
          
            | Feb.
            2000 onwards | Member, Standing
            Committee on Defence | 
          
            | Aug.
            2000 onwards | Member, Task Force for
            reviewing Government schemes and laws intended for the benefit of women and children. | 
          
            | Oct.
            2000 onwards | One-man Committee to
            review the working of the Central Social Welfare Board | 
          
            | Sept. 2001 onwards | Chairman,
            Hindi Bhavan, New Delhi. | 
          
            | Nov.
            2001 onwards | Member, Executive
            Board, UNESCO, Paris | 
          
            | Dec.
            2001 onwards | Member, Joint
            Committee on Security in Parliament Complex. Vice-President, Nehru Memorial Museum and
            Library. Also Chairman of Executive Council of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library.
 | 
          
            | Mar.
            2002 onwards | Chairman, Delhi Public
            Library. | 
          
            | Apr.
            2002 onwards | Member, Indian Council
            of Social Science Research; Chairman, Department-Related Parliamentary Standing Committee
            on Industry Trustee (1) Lala Dewan Chand Trust, (ii) Bharatiya Jnanpith | 
          
            | Jun.
            2002 onwards | Member, Joint
            Committee on Installation of Portraits and statues of National Leaders and -
            Parliamentarians in Parliament House. | 
          
            | Aug
            2002 onwards | Assumed Office of the
            Governor of Karnataka on 21st August 2002. |