Name of Member: Prof. Saifuddin Soz
Political Party: National Conference
Constituency & State: Baramullah (Jammu and Kashmir)
Lok Sabha Experience: 7,8,9,12
Biographical Sketch Member of Parliament 12th Lok Sabha
SOZ, PROF. SAIFUDDIN
[JAMMU & KASHMIR NATIONAL CONFERENCE - BARAMULLA (JAMMU & KASHMIR)]
Father's Name Late Shri Hakim Habibullah
Date of Birth 23 November 1937
Marital Status Married on 9 November 1961
Spouse's Name Smt. Mumtazun Nisa
Children Two sons and one daughter
Educational Qualifications
M.A.(Economics), B.Ed.
Profession
Political and Social Worker
Permanent Address
Noor Bagh, Baramulla-193101
(Jammu and Kashmir)
Present Address
7, Tughlak Road,
New Delhi - 110011
Tels. (011) 3017150, 3010782
Positions Held
1983-84 Elected to 7th Lok Sabha
Member, Committee on Environment and Forests
Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of
Education, Culture and Social Welfare
1984 Re-elected to 8th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
1985-88 Member, Committee on Public Undertakings
Member, Committee on Estimates
Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of
Petroleum and Natural Gas
1989-91 Re-elected to 9th Lok Sabha (3rd term)
1996-98 Member, Rajya Sabha
Member, Committee on Science and Technology,
Environment and Forests
1997 Union Cabinet Minister, Environment and Forests
1998 Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (4th term)
1998-99 Member, Public Accounts Committee
Member, Commitee on Science and Technology,
Environment and Forests
Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of
Petroleum and Natural Gas
Books Published
(i) Kashmir Crisis; (ii) Why Autonomy to Kashmir;
(iii) Secularism - an Interpretation; (iv) A Socio-
Economic Survey of Gurez Valley; (v) Problems of Kashmiri
Langauge and Literature; and (vi) `Daj' (A play in Kashmiri
on abuses of Dowry system); Translation of M.Allin's book
"1,00,000 Whys" from Russian to Kashmiri (the same was
awarded Soviet Land Nehru Award)
Literary, Artistic and Scientific Accomplishments
Written essays and short stories in kashmiri; several
articles in reputed Newspapers and Journals on a variety of
subjects like Islam and Modernism, Rights of Women and
secularism etc.;received, (i) All India Basic Literature
Competition Award; (ii) Competition for Literature for
Neo-literates Award; and (iii) Soviet Land Nehru Award
Special Interests
Environemnt and Foreign Affairs
Countries Visited
Widely travlled; represented India at the 12th Congress of
Afro-Asian Solidarity Conference, Algiers, May 1984; Inter
Parliamentary Conference, Mexico, April, 1985; International
Conference on Peace, Copenhagen, May 1987; International
Conference on Peace, Baghdad, April, 1989; Afro-Asian
Conference on Peace and Solidarity, USSR, May 1989; Member,
Parliamentary Delegation, Japan, October, 1989; Inter-
national Conference on Alternative World Order, Kaula
Lumpur, November, 1994; International Conference on Peace
Movements, Tripoli, November, 1995; Conference on Ethnic
Conflict in South Asia, Colombo, June 1996; Ministerial
Conference on Commission on Sustainable Development,
Dresden, Germany, March 1997; Chief Guest at Male (Maldives)
representing Government of India at the inauguration of
Maldives Institute of Technical Education (May, 1997);
Leader, Delegation to the Ministerial Conference on U.N.
Convention to Combat Desertification in Asia, Beijing (May,
1997); Leader, Indian Delegation to the Special Session
of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGASS) to review
implementation of Agenda 21 (21-30 June 1997); visited
Austria (3-8 July, 1997) to hold bilateral discussions with
the Environment Minister of Austria on conservation of water
bodies, solid waste management etc,1997; attended IXth
Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (15-17
September, 1997, Montreal, Canada); First Conference of
Parties of Convention to Combat Desertification (8-11
October, 1997, Rome); Leader of Indian Delegation at XIth
World Forestry Conference (11-16 October, 1997, Antalya,
Turkey); and Leader of India Delegation at the Conference of
Parties-3 of the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change, Kyoto, Japan, 1997; Member, Official Delegation
led by the President of India, Shri K. R. Narayanan to Germany,
Luxemburg, Portugal and Turkey, 1998
Other Information
Professor in Economics at Colleges affiliated to the
University of Jammu and Kashmir; held high positions in
University and School Administration of the Jammu and Kashmi
Government; Member, (i) Court of the Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi; (ii) Academic Council, University of
Kashmir; (iii) Academic Council, Board of School Education,
Jammu & Kashmir; (iv) Bureau of Promotion of Urdu; (v) Court
of Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh; (vi) Court of Jamia
Milia Islamia, New Delhi; (vii)National Integration Council;
(viii) Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Letters; (ix) Foreign
Affairs Club of India; (x) India International Centre; and
(xi) Animal Welfare Board of India, 1998; (xii) National
Book Trust of India; and (xiii) Advisory Committee on
Kashmiri Sahitya Academy
Election Result of
Baramulla Lok Sabha Constituency
Total electorate 7,61,265
Total votes polled 3,18,415
Votes polled in favour of the first four leading candidates
(1) Prof. Saifuddin Soz (J.K.N.C.) 1,30,574
(2) Shri Muzaffar Hussain Baig (Ind.) 92,780
(3) Shri Abdul Majid Gawali (J.K.A.L.) 20,833
(4) Shri Abdul Gani Vakil (I.N.C.) 11,682
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