Party Name : Independents
Constituency : Jaynagar
State : West Bengal
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 1 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 15
Father's Name : Late Kalidas Mandal
Mother's Name : Smt. Bimala Mandal
Date of birth : 20 Jan 1959
Profession : Medical Practitioner Social Worker, Educationist, Cultural activist
Positions held :
2009 Elected to 15th Lok Sabha31 Aug. 2009 Member, Standing Committee on Health and Family WelfareMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Rural Development & Panchayati RajCo-Chairman, Vigilance and Monitoring Committee, South 24 PGS Distt. West Bengal
More Information :
Books Published
All in Bengali (i)Maranphande Janswasthya; (ii) Swasthya Bikshan; (iii) Aamar Katha-on quotations of Saratchandra; (iv)Saratchandra-Anupam Sailite Bhaswar Manisa;(v)Saratchandra-Manisa Saili Uttaradhikar; (vi) Swasthya Aamar Adhikar; and (vii) Dr. Nani Guha - Manane Swarane.
Literary, Artistic & Scientific Accomplishments
Written articles on (i)educational and cultural problems; (ii) public health awareness; (iii) diseases; (iv) disaster management program related to health hazards; (v)problems of health care delivery system of India; and (vi)poetry published in journals
Social And Cultural Activities
(i)Recitation; (ii) mass songs; (iii) participation in plays as actor; (iv)speech on socio-political-cultural issues and on life, works of renaissance personalities, freedom fighters, medical scientists; and (v)organised and participated in language, health and education movements
Special Interests
(i) Eradication of poverty, illiteracy, ill health, food crisis, housing problems, drinking water crisis of Indian population; (ii)facilitate people`s movement towards change over of present society to a exploitation free socialist society; and (iii) study literature of Shibdas Ghosh, founder of Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) and Marxian classics
Favourite Pastime and Recreation
Medical social work to provide free medical services, especially at times of disaster for distressed and deprived people, watch good games/sports items, good films, dramas,listening music/songs and study literature, history and journals and `adda` with close friends
Sports and Clubs
Participated and represented college football and cricket teams; sports like sprint, long jump and high jump; free hand exercises and walking
Other Information
Voluntarily retired from the post of Chief Medical Officer (Selection Grade), ISPH, Nashik in july 2007;Participated in (i) disaster management works such as rendering free medical services as member and leader of Medical Service Centre, a socio-medical voluntary organisation functioning at different places for the last 32 years namely West Bengal floods, Assam floods, Supercyclone Orissa, Kosi flood Bihar, Mumbai flood (2005), Baroda and Surat floods (2005-06), Tsunami, Andaman Nicobar Islands, Earthquake, Gujrat, Aila Cyclone, Sunderbans, West Bengal, Kolkata and Mumbai slums: (ii) Health movements organised for improvement of medical education, health care delivery system of West Bengal and India; (iii)participated in the people`s resistance movement of Singur and Nandigram against land grabbing; and (iv) working for protection and upliftment of medical ethics and for pro-people scientific health policies;
