BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

BISWAS, SHRI DEBABRATA

B.Sc.; A.I.F.B.(West Bengal); s. of late Shri Tulshi Charan Biswas and late Shrimati Latika Biswas; b. at Bagnan Chaitanya Bati, District Hooghly, West Bengal, September 28, 1945; ed. at (i) Belmuri Union Institution and (ii) R.P.M. College, Uttarpara, Hooghly; m. Shrimati Swapna Biswas, March 7, 1977; 1 d.

Political and Social Worker; Vice-Chairman, West Bengal State Fisheries Cooperative Society Ltd.; General Secretary, (i) All India Student Bloc, 1967-69, (ii) All India Agragami Kisan Sabha of Hooghly District Committee, 1977-88, (iii) All India Agragami Kisan Sabha, West Bengal State Committee since 1979 and of its Central Committee since 1989 and (iv) All India Forward Bloc since November, 1997; Member, (i) State and Central Secretariat, All India Forward Bloc, West Bengal, (ii) National Relief Corps, West Bengal, (iii) Krishi Shramik Union (TUCC), (iv) Committee on Labour and Welfare, 1996-97, (v) Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests and (vi) Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Home Affairs; elected to the Rajya Sabha in April, 1990 and re-elected in April, 1996.

Travels abroad: China, North Korea, Thailand and Nepal.

Publications: Problems of, (i) Jute Growers and Workers, (ii) Agricultural Labourers, (iii) Irrigation and Flood Control, (iv) Land Reform in Bang, published by the Lokmat Prakashan, (v) Dunkel Draft and Critical Analysis and (vi) Works-Sanu Sahjan and Saraswati.

Special interest: Social work, reading and writing.

Favourite pastime and recreation: Song, indoor games, reading and travelling.

Permanent address: (i) Village and P.O. Bagnan Chaitanya Bati, District Hooghly, West Bengal and (ii) Camp Office: 49-C, C.R. Avenue, Hemant Basu Bhawan, Calcutta-700012.