Shri Shankarrao Shantaram More

Members Bioprofile

MORE, SHRI SHANKARRAO SHANTARAM, B.A., LL.B, Cong., (Maharashtra—Poona —1962):  S. of Shri Shantaram More; B. Poona, August 1, 1899; ed. at New English School, Fergusson College, Bombay, Law College, Bombay, and Poona Law College; m. Shrimati Shantabai, May 8, 1928; 4 S. and 1 D.; Advocate; One of the founders of Peasants and Workers Party of India; Rejoined Congress, December, 1956; Member, Poona District School Board, 1931—35; Fellow, University of Bombay, 1933—38; President, Poona District Local Board, 1935—40; Chairman, Poona District Rural Development Board, 1938—40; Member, A.I.C.C, 1946—48; Member, Maharashtra P.C.C, 1946—48; Chairman, Primary Teachers’ Training Committee, Bombay, 1937; Member, Local Bodies Enquiry Committee, Bombay, 1939; Member, Separation of Judiciary from Executive Committee, Bombay, 1947; Director, Indian Refinery Ltd.; Member, First Lok Sabha, 1952—57; Member of Estimates Committee and Several Select Committees of First Lok Sabha.

Social activities:  Worked on several institutions striving for social and educational reconstruction and betterment of the masses.

Special interests:  Education, Co-operation and local bodies problems.

Publications:  ‘Prathamic Shikshan’ (Treatise in Marathi on Primary Education), Bajarang (Novel in Marathi), Fragmentation and Consolidation, Borrowing by Local Bodies, Practice and Procedure of Indian Parliament, and Remoulding of Democracy for Afro-Asian Nations.

Permanent address:  279, Shivajinagar, Poona-5. 

[Voting results at the Election:

Electorate:  4,31,866

Shri Shankarrao Shantaram More                    . .                     1,15,402

Shri N. G. Goray                                                . .                        66,996

Shri P. K. Atre                                                   . .                        58,862

Shri J. A. Joshi                                                   . .                        26,755].