Constituency
: Tura ( Meghalaya )
Party : Nationalist Congress
Party (NCP)
E-Mail : pasangma@sansad.nic.in
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| Educational
Qualifications |
B.A.
(Hons.), M.A., LL.B.
Educated at St. Anthony’s College,
Shillong
and Dibrugarh University (Assam)
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| Profession
|
Professor
, Advocate , Journalist
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| Permanent
Address |
Walbakgre
P.O. Tura,
Distt. West Garo Hills (Meghalaya)
Tel. (03651) 232825
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| Present
Address |
34,
Aurangzeb Road,
New Delhi - 110 011
Tels. (011) 23018396, 23017787,
23010123, 9868180550 (M)
Fax (011) 23017787
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| Positions
Held |
| 1973-76 |
Vice-President,
Pradesh Youth Congress, Meghalaya
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| 1974-75 |
General-Secretary,
Pradesh Youth Congress, Meghalaya
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| 1975-80 |
General-Secretary,
Pradesh Congress Committee [P.C.C.
(I)], Meghalaya |
| 1977 |
Elected
to 6th Lok Sabha |
| 1980 |
Re-elected
to 7th Lok Sabha (2nd term) |
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Joint
Secretary, All India Congress
Committee (Indira) [A.I.C.C.(I)]
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| 1980-82 |
Union
Deputy Minister, Industry |
| 1982-84 |
Union
Deputy Minister, Commerce |
| 1984 |
Re-elected
to 8th Lok Sabha (3rd term) |
| Nov.-Dec.
1984 |
Union
Deputy Minister, Commerce |
| Jan.-March
1985 |
Union
Minister of State, Commerce and
Supply |
| March-Sept.
1985 |
Union
Minister of State, Commerce |
| 1985-86 |
Union
Minister of State, Home Affairs
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| 1986-88 |
Union
Minister of State, Labour (Independent
Charge) |
| 1988-91 |
Member,
Meghalaya Legislative Assembly
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| 1988-90 |
Chief
Minister, Meghalaya |
| 1990-91 |
Leader
of the Opposition, Meghalaya Legislative
Assembly |
| 1991 |
Re-elected
to 10th Lok Sabha (4th term) |
| 1991-93 |
Union
Minister of State, Coal (Independent
Charge) |
| 1993-95 |
Union
Minister of State, Labour (Independent
Charge) |
| Feb.-Sept.
1995 |
Union
Cabinet Minister, Labour |
| 1995-96 |
Union
Cabinet Minister, Information
and Broadcasting |
| 1996 |
Re-elected
to 11th Lok Sabha (5th term) |
| 1996-98 |
Speaker,
Lok Sabha |
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Chairman,
(i) Business Advisory Committee;
(ii) Rules Committee; (iii)
General Purposes Committee;
(iv) Standing Committee of the
Conference of Presiding Officers
of the Legislative Bodies in
India; and (v) Institute of
Constitutional and Parliamentary
Studies;
President, (i) Indian Parliamentary
Group, (ii) National Group of
Inter-Parliamentary Union; and
(iii) India Branch of the Commonwealth
Parliamentary Association
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| 1998 |
Re-elected
to 12th Lok Sabha (6th term) |
| 1998-99 |
Member,
Committee on External Affairs
and
its Sub-Committee-I
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| 1998-2004 |
Vice-President,
Indian Institute of Public Administration
Member, Consultative Committee,
Ministry of External Affairs
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| 1999 |
Re-elected
to 13th Lok Sabha (7th term) |
| 1999-2000 |
Member,
Committee on Labour and Welfare
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| 2000 |
Member,
National Commission to Review
the Working of the Constitution
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| 2002 |
Member,
Committee on External Affairs
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| 2003-2004 |
Member,
Committee on Home Affairs |
| 2004 |
Re-elected
to 14th Lok Sabha ( 8th term)
(resigned from Lok Sabha on 10.10.2005
as a member of All InidaTrinamool
Congress) |
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Member,
Committee on External Affairs
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Member,
Committee on Private Members Bills
and Resolutions |
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Member,
Consultative Committee, Ministry
of Home Affairs |
| 2006 |
Re-elected
to Lok Sabha as N.C.P. candidate
on 23.2.2006
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| Books
Published |
(i)
Edited the book entitled ‘India
in I.L.O.’ (two volumes) and
(ii) Into the Third Millennium;
A Speaker`s Perspectives
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| Literary
Artistic & Scientific Accomplishments |
Editor,
(i) Chandambeni Ku’rang—a local
daily
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| Social
And Cultural Activities |
Associated
with various social organisations
like the Red Cross Society,
Youth Hostels Association of
India and educational institutions;
set up night school for the
poor and the needy children
in his constituency
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| Countries
Visited |
Widely
travelled; Leader, Indian Delegation
to (i) U.N.I.D.O. Conference,
Khartoum, Sudan, 1981; (ii)
ESCAP Conference, Bangkok, Thailand,
1984; (iii) International Labour
Conference organised by I.L.O.,
six times; and (iv) Conference
of Asia Pacific Labour Ministers
(C.A.P.L.M.) at Tehran, Iran,
1993; Leader, Inter Parliamentary
Delegation, to (i) 42nd CPA
Conference, Kuala Lumpur, 1996;
(ii) 96th IPU Conference, Beijing,
China, 1996; and also led bilateral
Parliamentary Delegations to
Australia, Croatia, DPR Korea,
Finland, Mongolia, Norway, Russia,
Saudi Arabia, Sweden, and U.K.;
Leader, Indian Parliamentary
Delegation to Bulgaria, Mongolia
and Thailand, 1997; a member
of Commonwealth observer to
Zimbabwe Parliamentary Election;
Leader of the Commonwealth observer
for Presidential Election in
Gambia
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| Other
Information |
Taken
several policy initiatives; as
Union Industry Minister, enhanced
the production capability of the
Cement Industry to the level of
self sufficiency; Coal India Ltd.
turned into a profit-making enterprise
during his tenure as Coal Minister;
as Commerce Minister, introduced
plantation crops like Tea, Rubber
and Cashew of export importance
in non-traditional areas of the
North-Eastern India; as a Labour
Minister initiated social security
measures in the liberalisation
phase of Indian economy; introduced
pension scheme for 18 million
industrial workers, rationalised
wages and introduced employment
injury compensation for unorganised
labour sector; placed child labour
elimination on high national agenda,
worked for elimination of discrimination
against women; as Information
and Broadcasting Minister, worked
for liberalised usage of airwaves
and investments in the electronic
media; as Speaker, guided formation
of a Standing Joint Parliamentary
Committee on Empowerment of Women
and constitution of a Joint Parliamentary
Committee for considering 81st
Constitutional Amendment which
seeks to enhance the presence
of women in Parliament; also created
a group of Parliamentarians to
report on Ethics and Standards
in Public Life; Chairman, (i)
Asia-Pacific Regional Group in
the International Labour Conference,
1994-95; (ii) 5th Conference of
Labour Ministers of Non-aligned
and other Developing Countries,
Delhi, 1995; (iii) Specialised
Inter-Parliamentary Conference
of the I.P.U. on Partnership between
Men and Women in Politics, Delhi,
1997; conferred, (i) Michael John
Roll of Honour of the Tata Workers’
Union for distinguished contribution
to the cause of labour and to
the parliamentary system in 1997;
(ii) Golden Jubilee Award of the
Indian National Trade Union Congress
(I.N.T.U.C.) for outstanding contribution
to the cause of the working class
by Dr. Shanker Dayal Sharma, the
then President of India, 1997
; nominated Man of the year by
Competition Success Review(CSR-1998);
received "Saraswati National
Eminence Award in the category
of Public Leadership" by
the South Indian Education Society,
Mumbai in January 2003 |
