in 15 languages. In 2019, he had also signed a MoU with the Confederation of Indian Industry to drive energy efficiency and pilot projects aimed at setting up net-zero buildings and mechanisms for sharing of energy management practices between the industry association and the Indian Railways. He had announced a call for 150 railway stations across the country to be green certified by 2020. In his 16-month tenure as the Minister of State for Railways he was credited for introducing over 50 train services just in the South Western division alone. At the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown in India, he introduced special trains across states in India, including 31 pairs of special Rajdhani express trains and 254 pairs of special mail and express trains, aimed at enabling travel of migrant labour. He also headed the Suresh Angadi Education Foundation, which runs educational institutions across Karnataka. Death Angadi tested positive for COVID-19 on 11 September 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in India, and was initially asymptomatic. He was later hospitalized at AIIMS hospital in New Delhi and died on 23 September 2020, at the age of 65, making him the first Indian Union minister to die of COVID-19. Given the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions his body was not allowed to be transported to Belagavi and Angadi was buried as per the COVID-19 protocol in the Lingayat-Veerashaiva burial ground at Sector 24, Dwarka in Delhi. References |- External links Members of Fourteenth Lok Sabha - Home Page 1955 births 2020 deaths Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Karnataka India MPs 2004–2009 People from Belgaum Kannada people India MPs 2009–2014 Lok Sabha members from Karnataka India MPs 2014–2019 India MPs 2019–present Narendra Modi ministry