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TRIPATHI, SHRI KAMAKHYA PRASAD, M.A., B.L., Cong. (Assam—Darrang—1952): S. of Shri Balbhadra Prasad Tripathi; ed. at High School, Tezpur, Cotton College, Gauhati and Calcutta University; m. Shrimati Ramkumari Tripathi, May 12, 1930; 1 S. and 1 D.; Pleader; Secretary, College Union Society, 1930; Secretary, District Sporting Association, 1936—38; Secretary, Town Congress, Tezpur, 1937—40; Secretary, District Cultural Association, 1938-39; President, Rashtrabhasha Prachar Samity, Tezpur, 1939—42; Under detention, 1942—44; Worked for the removal of untouchability, adult education, basic education, flood and famine relief and the promotion of communal harmony; Imprisoned for Independence Day Speech, 1945; President, Town Congress, 1940; President, Tezpur D.C.C., since 1946; President, Indian National Trade Union Congress, Assam Branch since 1947; President, Indian National Plantation Workers’ Federation since 1948; Member, A.I.C.C. since 1948; Delegate to Rome Session of I.L.O. Committee on Building, Civil Engineering and Public Works, 1949; Vice-President, Indian National Trade Union Congress. 1950—53; Delegate to Plantation Committee of I.L.O. in Indonesia and elected Chairman, Workers’ representatives, 1950; Member, Working Committee of Assam P.C.C., 1950; Attended the Plenary Session of the I.L.O. in Geneva, 1952; Attended the meeting of Plantation Committee of the I.L.O. in Havana (Cuba) in 1953 as Indian Workers’ delegate and elected Chairman of Workers’ group; Functioned as a member on a two-man committee appointed by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions to investigate into the conditions of Plantation Workers in South East Asia; After Havana, visited 13 different States of the U.S.A. to study conditions of labour, and returned via Hawaii (Honolulu), Japan and Hong Kong; In Japan visited small scale and Cottage Industries; Elected General Secretary, I.N.T.U.C. in 1953 and 1954; Attended the E.C.A.F.E. Conference in Kandy (Ceylon) on behalf of I.C.F.T.U., 1954; Attended the Emergency Committee of the I.C.F.T.U. in Brussels in April, 1954; Attended I.L.O. as labour delegate at Geneva in 1954 and was elected member of the Governing Body of I.L.O.
Travels: Italy, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, France, England, Indonesia, Malaya, Havana, United States (including Hawaii), Japan, Hong Kong, Egypt and Cuba.
Hobbies: Journalism and literary activities.
Special interest: Trade Unionism and education.
Publications: “Approaching Crisis in Labour-Capital Relationship in Plantations of Asia—An appeal to the conscience of the World”, “Wage in National Policy”—1954 and numerous articles in magazines and newspapers in English, Assamese and Hindi on literary, political and trade union subjects.
Permanent address: P.O. and T.O. Tezpur (Assam).
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