Party Name : Congress
Constituency : Barrackpore
State : West Bengal
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 1 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 1
More Information :
DAS, SHRI RAMANANDA, B.A. (Hons.), Cong. (West Bengal—Barrackpore—1952): S. of Late Shri Ramtahal Das; B. Village Tajpur, District Rajshahi, July 1, 1913; ed. at Chakla H.E. School and Government College, Rajshahi, District Rajshahi (East Pakistan), Calcutta University Law College; m. Shrimati Ram Dulari Das, June, 1941; 1 S. and 1 D.; Started Harijan Uplift work in close co-operation with the All India Rabidas Mahasabha for the upliftment of Harijans in 1934; Organised Trade Unions, like Calcutta Leather Workers' Union, All Bengal Charmakar Union, All Bengal Tannery Mazdoor Union and the Coalfields Dalit Mazdoor Congress; Represented India in I.L.O. labour conferences at San Francisco in 1948 and at Geneva in 1951; Member, Tripartite Labour Conference, 1948, Advisory Committee, Employment Exchange and Industrial Leather Tanning Committee of the Government of India since 1948; Ex-Member, Labour Standing Committee, 1948 and Scheduled Castes Scholarship Board of the Government of India, 1943 to 1950; Member, General Council, I.N.T.U.C; Treasurer, Bengal Provincial National T.U. Congress; President, All Bengal Charmakar Union, Calcutta Leather Workers' Union, All Bengal Tannery Mazdoor Union, Hukumchand Chatkal Sramik Sangh, Coalfield Dalit Mazdoor Congress and Harijan Nav Yuwak Sangh; General Secretary, Bengal Provincial Depressed Classes League; General Secretary, Bhartiya Depressed Classes League, All Bengal Hospital Workers' Union and Calcutta Dockers' Union; Managing Editor of Hindi Weekly "Manav Mitra"; Member, Calcutta Dock Labour Board, Post and Telegraph Advisory Committee of West Bengal; President, All India Telegraph Union, All India Telegraph Workmen's Union, All India Postal and R.M.S. Union, West Bengal Branch, Federation of Post and Telegraph Unions, Delhi State, Calcutta Corporation Karmi Congress, Burnpur Iron and Steel Mazdoor Congress; An active Congress, Labour and Harijan worker. Special interest: Amelioration of conditions of labourers, Scheduled Castes and backward classes; visiting places of historical importance. Recreation: Sight-seeing. Permanent address: 12, Arpuli Lane, Calcutta—12.
