BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

PARMAR, SHRI RAJUBHAI A.

B.A.; I.N.C. (Gujarat); s. of Shri Arjunbhai Parmar and Shrimati M.A. Parmar; b. at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, June 27, 1950; ed. at Shree Vivekanand Arts and Commerce College, Ahmedabad; m. Shrimati Neela, January 16, 1980; 2 s.

Banker, Social Worker and Trade Unionist in banking sector and associated with trade unions of Railways, LIC, ONGC, Income Tax employees and others; crusader for the cause of weaker sections, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other Backward Classes; toured extensively, pioneering the cause of communal harmony; General Secretary, Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee; Joint Secretary, All India Congress Committee (I); was Member, (i) Parliamentary Delegation to Cyprus, 1993, (ii) Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, (iii) Executive Committee of Congress Party in Parliament, 1990-96, (iv) Committee on Government Assurances, (v) Public Accounts Committee and (vi) Senate, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Member, (i) Senate, Gujarat University, (ii) Tobacco Board, Ministry of Commerce, (iii) Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, (iv) Committee on Industry and (v) Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas;worked as Congress Party Observer for Legislative Assembly Elections in Nagaland, 1988 and 1991 and Telengana, 1989, Sikar-Rajasthan, 1993, for Parliamentary Elections in Orissa, 1991 and for organisational elections in J&K Border Districts of Poonch and Rajouri 1991; organised the party elections for grassroot level at the State level in Nagaland, 1992; AICC (I) Observer in Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and Rajasthan, 1993 and for Parliamentary Elections in Bihar, West Bengal and Goa, 1996; actively assisted Shri Rajiv Gandhi in running a Grievances Cell when Congress Party was in Opposition, 1989-91; elected to the Rajya Sabha in April, 1988 and re-elected in April, 1994.

Travels abroad : U.K., Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Abu-Dhabi, Dubai, Thailand, Hong Kong, U.S.A., France, Japan, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh.

Special interest : Social work, upliftment and welfare of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other Backward Classes, welfare of women and children and trade

union activities.

Favourite pastime and recreation : Travelling, social work and music.

Permanent address : F-4, Sanskruti Apartment, Near Rachna Society, Premchand Nagar Road, Satellite, Jodhpur, Ahmedabad-380 015 (Gujarat).