Shri Prithibi Majhi,  M.L.A.

 

Office held and date of assumption of office

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Speaker; 30 May 2001

 

 

 

Political Party

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Indian National Congress

 

 

 

Date of Birth

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24 January 1951

 

 

 

Marital Status

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Married

 

 

 

Children

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Four

 

 

 

Education

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B.A., LL.B.

 

 

 

Career:

 

 

 

 

 

1968-1978

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Secretary, Assam Tea Garden Tribes Students Association

 

 

 

 

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General Secretary, All Assam Santal Committee

 

 

 

1979

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Councillor,  Sessa Gaon Panchayat, Dibrugarh

 

 

 

1979-1983

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 Deputy Chief Executive Councillor, Dibrugarh Mahakuma Parishad, Dibrugarh

 

 

 

1983-1984

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Chief Administrator, Dibrugarh Mahakuma Parishad, Dibrugarh

 

 

 

1984-1990

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Member, Rajya Sabha

 

 

 

1991, 1996, 2001

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Elected to Assam Legislative Assembly         (3 terms)

 

 

 

1993-1996

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Deputy Speaker, Assam Legislative Assembly

 

 

 

30 May 2001

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Speaker, Assam Legislative Assembly

 

 

 

Conferences/Seminars attended and visits made:

 

 

 

 

 

1999, Switzerland 

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Represented India in the 17th Session of Working Group of the Indigenous Population of United Nations

 

2000, Shillong

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4th Annual Conference of NERCPA

 

 

 

2001, Australia

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47th CPA Conference

 

 

 

2001, Chandigarh

2002, Bangalore

2003, Mumbai

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Conference of Presiding Officers and Secretaries of Legislative Bodies in India

 

 

 

2001, New Delhi

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All-India Conference of Presiding Officers, Chief Ministers, Ministers of Parliamentary Affairs, Leaders and Whips of Parties on ‘Discipline and Decorum in Parliament and State Legislatures’

 

2002, Arunachal    

         Pradesh

 

2002, Namibia

 

 

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6th Annual Conference of NERCPA

 

 

48th CPA Conference

 

 

 

2003, Bangladesh

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49th CPA Conference

 

 

 

         Sri Lanka

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2nd    Regional Conference of the CPA Branches in the Asia Region

 

Interests/Recreations

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Reading, writing and travelling

 

 

 

Travels abroad

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Australia, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Namibia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and  Switzerland

 

 

 

Additional Information:

 

 

 

 

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Member, Working Committee, INTUC (Assam Branch)

 

 

 

1978-1983

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General Secretary, Assam Tea Employees Industrial Cooperative Organisation Limited (ATICOL) Employees Union

 

 

 

1979-1984

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ConvenEr, Labour Cell, Dibrugarh District Congress Committee (I)

 

 

 

1983-1986

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Vice-President, Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha (affiliated to INTUC)

 

Member, Working Committee, Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha

 

Adviser, Adibasi Socio-Education and Cultural Association, Assam

 

 

 

1985-1990

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Convener, Labour Cell, Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (I)

 

1991-1993

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Chairman, Assam Textile Corporation

 

Vice-Chairman, Assam Tea Employees Welfare Board

 

 

 

1997-2001

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General Secretary, Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (I)

 

 

 

 

 

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Honorary Member, All India Santali Writers’ Association

 

 

 

 

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Vice-President, Assam Tea and Ex-Tea Tribes, Literature, Arts and Cultural Parishad under Srimanta Sankardev Kala Khetra, Guwahati

 

 

 

 

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Associated with various  literary and socio- cultural organisations at the State and national levels

 

President, North-East Regional Institute of Parliamentary Studies, Training and Research.

 

Chairman, North-East Region Commonwealth Parliamentary Association