Party Name : Biju Janata Dal
Constituency : Bhadrak
State : Odisha
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 8 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 16
Father's Name : Late Shri Srimukha Sethi
Mother's Name : Late Smt. Para Dei
Date of birth : 18 Sep 1941
Profession : Agriculturist Teacher, Educationist
Positions held :
1971 Elected to 5th Lok Sabha1971-77 Member, Joint Committee on Offices of Profit1973-74 and 1974-75 Member, Executive, Congress Parliamentary Party (C.P.P.)1974 Member, Pradesh Election Committee, Orissa1974-77 Member, Executive Committee, Pradesh Congress Committee (P.C.C.), Orissa1975-78 Member, Committee of PrivilegesPresident, District Congress Committee (D.C.C.), Balasore1980 Re-elected to 7th Lok Sabha (2nd term)1990-91 Member, Orissa Legislative AssemblyMember, Public Accounts CommitteeMember, Executive Committee, Janata Dal, Orissa1991 Re-elected to 10th Lok Sabha (3rd term)1991-95 Member, Standing Committee on AgricultureMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Railways1995-98 Member, Orissa Legislative Assembly (2nd term)1995-96 Member, Public Accounts Committee, Orissa Legislative Assembly1998 Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (4th term)Deputy Leader, Biju Janata Dal Parliamentary Party1998-99 Chairman, Committee on Papers Laid on the TableMember, General Purposes CommitteeMember, Committee on Government AssurancesMember, Standing Committee on Petroleum and ChemicalsMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Railways1999 Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (5th term)Leader, Biju Janata Dal Parliamentary Party1999-2000 Chairman, Committee on Papers Laid on the TableMember, Standing Committee on Petroleum and ChemicalsMember, General Purposes CommitteeLeader, B.J.D. Parliamentary Party2000 Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Communications.27 May 2000 Union Cabinet Minister, Water Resources2004 Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha (6th term)Member, Pannel of Chairmen, Lok SabhaChairman, B.J.D. Parliamentary PartyMember, Standing Committee on Water ResourcesMember, Committee on EstimatesMember, Joint-Parliamentary Committee on WakfMember, General Purposes CommitteeCo-Chairman, SC/ST Welfare Board, OrrisaMember, Standing Committee on DefenceMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Communications2005 onwards District President, Biju Janata Dal, Bhadrak2009 Re-elected to 15th Lok Sabha (7th term)Leader, B.J.D. Parliamentary PartyJun 2009 Member, Panel of Chairmen, Lok Sabha31 Aug 2009 Member, Standing Committee on Industry1 May 2010 Member, Committee on Estimates9 Jun. 2013 Member, House CommitteeMay, 2014 Re-elected to 16th Lok Sabha (8th term)9 June 2014 onwards Member, Panel of Chairpersons, Lok Sabha1 Sep. 2014 onwards Member, Committee on Petitions.Member, Standing Committee on Agriculture29 Jan. 2015 onwards Member, General Purposes CommitteeMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water and Sanitation1 May 2017 - 30 April 2018 Member, Committee on Estimates7 June 2018 onwards Member, Joint Parliamentary Committee on Security in Parliament House Complex
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Literary, Artistic & Scientific Accomplishments
Contributed several articles to newspapers and magazines
Social And Cultural Activities
Upliftment of the rural poor, especially during the cyclone in Orissa, 1971; Patron (i) Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Welfare Committee; and (ii) Government Press, New Delhi, 1976-77
Special Interests
Agriculture
Sports and Clubs
Football and Volleyball
Countries Visited
Leader, Indian Delegation to (i) 34th Meeting of the Indo-Bangladesh Joint Rivers Commission (JRC), Dhaka, Bangladesh; (ii) International Conference on Fresh Water, Bonn, Germany 3 and 4 December 2001; (iii) Meeting to discuss matters of Mutual Benefit in the interests of Advancing the Bilateral Relation in the Area of Water Resources Management, Sydney, Australia, April 2002; (iv) Third World Water Forum, Shiga, Osaka and Kyoto, Japan, March 2003; (v) 13th Stockholm Water Symposium and 8th Annual Meeting of Consulting Partnership of the Global Water Partnership, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2003; and (vi) 35th Meeting of the Indo-Bangladesh Joint Rivers Commission (JRC), New Delhi, 2003; Member (i) Indian Parliamentary Delegation to 63rd Inter-Parliamentary Conference, Madrid, Spain, 1976; and (ii) Indian Delegation to UNO General Assembly, New York, December 2008
Other Information
Member, Land Reforms Committee, Distt. Balasore, 1975-77; Teacher in a private school, 1968-70; and Honorary Principal in a Private College, 1977-78
