SAHI SMT KRISHNA Biography

SAHI, SMT. KRISHNA

[Cong. (I) – Begusarai (Bihar)]

1972-80

1980

1980-82

1980-84

1981

1981-82

1983-84

1984

1985

May 1986 to Feb. 1988

1988-89

Feb. 1988 to July 1989

July 1989 to Dec. 1989

1991

2 July 1992

16th February, 1931

Muzaffarpur (Bihar)

Married on 16th May, 1946

Late Shri B.P.N. Sahi

One son

B.A., (Hons.) B.L.

Educated at Patna University and Bihar
University

Advocate and Political and Social worker

Road No. 7, Rajendra Nagar, Patna-800016
(Bihar) Tel. 650475

22, Willingdon Crescent, New Delhi-110001
Tel. 3792865

Member, Bihar Legislative Assembly

Elected to Lok Sabha (Seventh)

Member, Consultative Committee on Assam

Member, Consultative Committee, Department
of Energy

Member, Joint Committee on Dowry
Prohibition Act, 1981

Member, House Committee

Chairman, Committee on Papers Laid on the
Table

Member, General Purposes Committee

Re-elected to Lok Sabha (Eighth)

Member, Business Advisory Committee

Union Minister of State, Human Resource
Development, Department of Education and Culture

Member, Committee on Private Members’ Bills
and Resolutions

Union Minister of State, Water Resources

Union Minister of State, Human Resources
Development, Department of Culture

Elected to Lok Sabha (Tenth) for the third
time

Union Minister of State, Ministry of
Industry (Department of Industrial Development)

Writing articles in Hindi on social
problems

Upliftment of women; rural development

Continental cooking, interior decoration,
beauty culture

Widely travelled; Member, Indian
Parliamentary Delegation to the CPA Conference, Lusaka, Zambia, 1980;
represented India on the UN Committee on ‘Women and Apartheid’ New York,
1982-83; represented Congress (I) party at a conference on the status of
women held in Belgrade in 1983

Chairman, Patna Development Authority
1976-77; Member, Patna Improvement Trust 1970-74; Senate and Syndicate of
Bihar University, Muzaffarpur 1969-72; Patna University 1969-80, Court of
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1980-82; United Nations Committee on
Women’s Apartheid; Life Member, Red Cross Society and Bharat Krishak Samaj;
Diploma holder in flower decoration, craft, beauty culture, interior
decoration; international and continental cooking from London, polytechnic
Harrow and Kilburn.