Shri Prabhat Kumar Samantaray

Workers’ movement, sports, gardening and travelling.

Germany and Nigeria; selected by World University Service National Assembly, and represented India in International General Assembly, Nigeria, 1973 and Munich, 1975

Arrested in students’ movement in 1964, 1967, 1969 and 1971; remained engaged in underground publication during emergency; organised relief work in 1971 cyclone and 1982 floods and organised industrial and agricultural labourers’ cooperative movement; President, (i) Utkal Port and Dock Workers’ Union; (ii) Taxi Drivers’ Association; (iii) Paradip Taxi Driver Credit Cooperative Society Ltd.; (iv) Paradip Port and Dock Workers’ Credit Cooperative Society; (v) Paradip Phosphate Employees’ Union; and (vi) Kendrapara College Students’ Union, 1968-69; Working President, Indian National Port and Dock Workers’ Federation; Chairman, Students’ Council Utkal University; Co-Chairman, Distt. Development Board, Malkangiri; Vice-Chairman, Hind Kusht Nivaran Sangh, Orissa; General-Secretary, World University Service, Indian National Committee, 1972-76; Advisor, J.K. Paper Mill Employees’ Union and several other social organisations; Member, (i) E.S.I.C. (Headquarters) and its Standing Committee; (ii) Sarbani Sahitya Sansada; (iii) Consultative Committee, Deptt. of Higher Education, Deptt. of Works and Deptt. of Labour, Government of Orissa; (iv) Distt. Development Boards, Kendrapara and Jagatsinghpur, Cuttack; (v) Notified Area Council, Paradip; Patron, All India Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan; and Returning Officer, Janata Dal, 1996-97

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