BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

MALAVIYA, SHRI RADHAKISHAN

B.A., LL.B.; I.N.C. (Madhya Pradesh); s. of Shri Chhotelal Malaviya and Shrimati Budhi Bai; b. at village Bhicholi Hapsi, District Indore, July 8, 1943; ed. at (i) Government S.G.H.S. School, (ii) Government Arts and Commerce Gujarati College, Indore; m. Shrimati Shantibai Malaviya, April 30, 1962; 1 s. and 5 d.

Agriculturist and Legal Practitioner; participated in the activities for the welfare of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and agriculturists; President, (i) District Congress (I) Committee, Indore,1977-89, (ii) Madhya Pradesh Harijan Sewak Sangh, Indore, since 1982, (iii) Indore District Balai (Malaviya) Mahasangh, (iv) District Indore Monitoring Committee on State Government's Works and (v) Malwa Mitra Mandal, Delhi since 1988; Vice-President, Madhya Pradesh Rachnatmak Karyakarta Samaj; Chairman, House Committee Rajya Sabha, 1994-96; Life Member, Scheduled Castes Parishad since 1982; was Member, (i) Madhya Pradesh State Legislative Assembly, 1972-77, (ii) Public Committee and Committee on Public Undertakings, Madhya Pradesh Legislature, (iii) Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress Committee, 1972-75, (iv) All India Council for Technical Education, 1982-84, (v) Hindi Salahakar Samiti of the Ministries of Industry, 1983-84 and Parliamentary Affairs, 1990-94 and 1996, (vi) Divisional Railway Users' Consultative Committee for the Ratlam Division, 1983-88, 1990, 1991-93 and 1995, (vii) Indore District Telephone Advisory Committee, Indore, 1972-75 and 1983-88, (viii) Senate, University of Indore, 1972-77, (ix) Adult Education Committee, Government of Madhya Pradesh, 1984-88, (x) Consultative Committees for the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, 1986-88, 1991 and 1993-96 and Ministry of Agriculture, 1990-91, (xi) Indore District 20-Point Programme Implementation Committee, (xii) Joint Committee on the Constitution (Seventy-third Amendment) Bill, 1991-92, (xiii) Bar Association, District Court, Indore, 1978, (xiv) Business Advisory Committee, 1988-90, (xv) Committee on Rules, 1988-91, (xvi) Executive Committee of Congress (I) Parliamentary Party, 1988-89, (xvii) Pradesh Congress Election Committee, 1988-90 and 1995-96, (xviii) Indian Delegation to Yugoslavia, 1986, (xix) Committee on Railways, 1995-96, (xx) Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, (xxi) Committee on Urban and Rural Development and (xxii) Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Environment and Forests; Member, (i) Indian National Rural Labour Federation (INTUC) Working Committee (INRLF) since 1989, (ii) Harijan Sevak Sangh Central Board, Delhi, (iii) A.I.C.C. since 1992, (iv) Pradesh Congress Committee, Bhopal, (v) Madhya Pradesh Labour Welfare Board since 1994, (vi) Parliamentary Forum of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, (vii) Committee on Subordinate Legislation, (viii) Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas and (ix) Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Agriculture; Leader of the Indian Delegation to I.L.O. Conference, Geneva, June, 1988 and June, 1989; Union Deputy Minister from February, 1988 to July, 1989 and Union Minister of State from July, 1989 to December, 1989; elected to the Rajya Sabha in April, 1982, re-elected in April, 1988 and again in April, 1994.

Travels abroad : Italy, U.K., the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Switzerland, Germany, Portugal, France, Trinidad & Tobago, Chile, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Malaysia and Oman.

Special interest : Village development work and welfare of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes.

Favourite pastime and recreation : Games, reading and agriculture.

Permanent address : (i) Village Bhicholi Hapsi, District Indore, Madhya Pradesh, (ii) 19, Tilak Nagar, Main Road, Indore and (iii) Sanweed Nagar, Kanadia Main Road, Indore, Madhya Pradesh.