Smt. Krishna Sahi political profile

[Cong. (I) – Begusarai (Bihar)]

Place of Birth

Marital Status

Spouse’s Name

Children

Educational Qualifications

Profession

Permanent Address

Present Address

Positions held

1972-80

1980

1980-82

1980-84

1981

1981-82

1983-84

1984

1985

May 1986 to Feb. 1988

1988-89

Feb. 1988 to July 1989

July 1989 to Dec. 1989

1991

2 July 1992

Literary, Artistic and Scientific Accomplishments

Special Interests

Favourite Pastime and Recreation

Countries visited

Other Information

Muzaffarpur (Bihar)

Married on 16th May, 1946

Late Shri B.P.N. Sahi

One son

B.A., (Hons.) B.L.

Educated at Patna University and Bihar University

Advocate and Political and Social worker

Road No. 7, Rajendra Nagar, Patna-800016 (Bihar) Tel. 650475

22, Willingdon Crescent, New Delhi-110001 Tel. 3792865

Member, Bihar Legislative Assembly

Elected to Lok Sabha (Seventh)

Member, Consultative Committee on Assam

Member, Consultative Committee, Department of Energy

Member, Joint Committee on Dowry Prohibition Act, 1981

Member, House Committee

Chairman, Committee on Papers Laid on the Table

Member, General Purposes Committee

Re-elected to Lok Sabha (Eighth)

Member, Business Advisory Committee

Union Minister of State, Human Resource Development, Department of Education and Culture

Member, Committee on Private Members’ Bills and Resolutions

Union Minister of State, Water Resources

Union Minister of State, Human Resources Development, Department of Culture

Elected to Lok Sabha (Tenth) for the third time

Union Minister of State, Ministry of Industry (Department of Industrial Development)

Writing articles in Hindi on social problems

Upliftment of women; rural development

Continental cooking, interior decoration, beauty culture

Widely travelled; Member, Indian Parliamentary Delegation to the CPA Conference, Lusaka, Zambia, 1980; represented India on the UN Committee on ‘Women and Apartheid’ New York, 1982-83; represented Congress (I) party at a conference on the status of women held in Belgrade in 1983

Chairman, Patna Development Authority 1976-77; Member, Patna Improvement Trust 1970-74; Senate and Syndicate of Bihar University, Muzaffarpur 1969-72; Patna University 1969-80, Court of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1980-82; United Nations Committee on Women’s Apartheid; Life Member, Red Cross Society and Bharat Krishak Samaj; Diploma holder in flower decoration, craft, beauty culture, interior decoration; international and continental cooking from London, polytechnic Harrow and Kilburn.