[J.D. – Jajpur-SC (Orissa)]

Place of Birth

Marital Status

Spouse’s Name

Children

Educational Qualifications

Profession

Permanent Address

Present Address

Positions held

1971

1971-72

1971-73

1972-73

1973

1973-74

1974-75

1974-76

1976-77

1977

1978

1978-87

1980

1980-82

1982-84

1984

1989

1990

1991

Social and Cultural Activities

Special interests

Countries visited

Other Information

Bijipur in Distt. Cuttack (Orissa)

Married in 1956

Smt. Netramani Das

Four sons and one daughter

Matriculate, Diploma in Planning

Educated at Biraja High School (Orissa) and Regional Planning Institute, Wardha (Maharashtra)

Agriculturist and Social Worker

Vill. Bijipur, P.O. Kapasichhak, Via Debidwar, Distt. Cuttack (Orissa)

38, Gurudwara Rakabganj Road, New Delhi-110001. Tel. 3716225

Elected to Lok Sabha (Fifth)

Member, Select Committee on Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 1971

Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Irrigation and Power

Member, Joint Committee on the Mines (Amendment) Bill, 1972

Member, Orissa State Legislature (Delegation of Powers) Committee, 1973

Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Labour

Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Agriculture

Member, Estimates Committee

Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers

Member, Committee on Petitions

Member, D.C.C(l), Cuttack, Orissa

Member, F.CC(I), Orissa

Member, A.I.C.C.(I)

Re-elected to Lok Sabha (Seventh)

Member, Committee on Petitions

Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Energy

Chairman, Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes an Scheduled Tribes

Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Education

Elected to Lok Sabha (Eighth) for the third time

Elected to Lok Sabha (Ninth) for the Fourth time Member, Business Advisory Committee

Chairman, Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes

Member, General Purposes Committee

Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Labour and Welfare

Member, Executive Committee, Janata Dal Parliamentary Party

Elected to Lok Sabha (Tenth) for the fifth time

Development of Adivasis of Koraput District, Orissa; President, Janakalyan Samiti, Jajpur since 1972; President, Orissa Harijan Sevak Sangh, 1984; Member, All India Harijan Sevak Sangh, Delhi; Secretary, Guma Sarvodaya Forest Marketing Cooperative Society, Rayaganda, Koratpur District; Area Organiser, Pattangi Gramadani Sangh under Khadi and Village Industries Commission Programme; President, Dandakaranya Employees’ Association, Koratpur for 2 years

Social work

Burma, China, Cyprus, Czechosolvakia, Hong Kong, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and U.A.E.

Participated in Sarvodaya Movement, 1954-71; Member, Regional P&T Advisory Committee for Orissa Circle, 1972-74; Zonal Railway Users’ Consultative Committee (South Eastern Railways); All India Harijan Sevak Sangh, Delhi; Associate Member, Delimitation Commission; and Chairman, Development Council, 1982-84