Shri Mahabir Prasad

Mahabir Prasad, Shri Constituency   : Bansgaon -SC (Uttar Pradesh) Party Name     : Indian National Congress (INC)

Father’s Name Late Shri Amar Prasad Mother’s Name Late Smt. Bartani Devi Date of Birth 11 Nov 1939 Place of Birth Ujjarpar, Distt. Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) Marital Status Married Date of Marriage 03 Apr 1959 Spouse’s Name Late Smt. Udasi Devi No.of Daughters 2 Educational Qualifications M.A. (Geography), B.Ed. and LL.B. Educated at Gorakhpur University and Lucknow University (Uttar Pradesh) Profession Agriculturist Teacher, Educationist, Social Worker Permanent Address Village Ujjarpar, Distt. Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) Tel. (0551)2320988 Present Address 1, Tyagraj Marg, New Delhi – 110 001 Tels. (011) 23012745, 23015924 (R), 23061739, 23062778 (O) Fax: (011) 23015598 (R), 23063141 (O) Positions Held

1958 Member, Gram Panchayat, Ujjarpar

1960 Sarpanch, Sadhan Co-operative Society, Ujjarpar

1962 Member, Gagaha Area Society

1963 Member, Gorakhpur Zilla Parishad

General Secretary Gorakhpur Zilla Congress Committee

1974-77 Member, Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly

1974-79 General Secretary, PCC, later PCC (I), Uttar Pradesh

1980 Elected to 7th Lok Sabha Member, Estimates Committee for 2 years Member, Public Accounts Committee for 1 year

1983-85 Vice-President, PCC (I), Uttar Pradesh

1984 Re-elected to 8th Lok Sabha (2nd term)

1985-86, 1987-88, 1992-94 President, Congress Working Committee, Uttar Pradesh

Feb. 1988-July 1989 Union Deputy Minister, Railways

July 1989 – Dec. 1989 Minister of State, Mines and Steel, Department of Mines

1989 Re-elected to 9th Lok Sabha (3rd term)

1990 Member, Committee on Government Assurances

Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Railways

1990 & 2001 General Secretary, All India Congress Committee (I)

Member, All India Congress (I) Central Election Committee

Member, AICC

14 June 1995-2000 Governor, Haryana

18 Sept.95-16 Nov.95 and 23 April 96-26 July 97 Held additional charge of the Governor of Himachal Pradesh

2004 Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha

22 May Onwards Union Cabinet Minister, Small Scale Industries and Agro & Rural Industries

Books Published Rashtriya Chetna Aur Atmasadhana (in Hindi) Social And Cultural Activities Propagated the policies of Congress as a student leader; worked for the welfare of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, minorities and oppressed; Chairman, District Social Welfare Committee, 1963 Special Interests Dissemination of education in the lower strata of society Favourite Pastime and Recreation Reading, horticulture, agriculture, tourism and social service Sports and Clubs Volleyball, kabbadi and football Countries Visited Nepal, Mauritius, U.A.E. (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah) Other Information Continously endeavouring selflessly to provide social justice to the opressed sections of society and promoting women upliftment through education; works for communal harmony and national integration, promoting love for fraternity and feelings of peaceful co-existance; presently engaged in furthering ancient Indian ideals and cultural heritage; striving continously to let Hindi get its due place as national language since national language is the representative of country`s collective consciousness; working on eradicating illiteracy from the society, protecting environment through afforestation, and advocating control of population explosion by way of lectures oranised in Haryana and the rest of the country; President, Baba Saheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Memorial Institute; awarded Babu Jagjivan Ram Award, 1996-97 by All India Scheduled Castes Council in Amritsar on 1 August 1996; donated the cash amount of the award to Baba Bhimrao Amebedkar Memorial Institute; firm believer in the ideals, principles and policies of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar and Babu Jagjivan Ram; engaged in the task of nation building by harmonising the ideologies of past leaders; worked as a lecturer at Gandhi Inter College, Mahnapur, Gorakhpur and taught there for 34 years; started his public and political life with active participation in Panchyati Raj Institutions and infrastructural units of democrarcy; demonstrated his political and administrative skills in organisation and administration of these institutes

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