DR. CHANDRESHWAR PRASAD THAKUR

Father’s Name : Shri Radhamohan Thakur
Mother’s Name : Smt. Sharda Thakur
Date of Birth : 3 September 1931
Place of Birth : Dubaha, Distt. Muzaffarpur (Bihar)
Date of Marriage :12 June 1957
Spouse’s Name : Dr. (Smt.) Uma Thakur
No. of Sons 2
No. of Daughters 2

Educational Qualifications :
M.B.B.S., M.D., M.R.C.P., F.R.C.P. Educated at Patna Medical College, Patna University, BiharRoyal College of Physicians, London and Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh and Royal College of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London

Permanent Address:
Fraser Road, G.P.O. Distt. PatnaBihar - 800 001

Positions Held
1984
Elected to 8th Lok Sabha
1998
Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
1998-99
Member, Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests; and its Sub-Committee on Ganga Action Plan
Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of External Affairs
1999
Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (3rd term)
22 Nov. 1999– 26 May 2000
Union Cabinet Minister, Water Resources
27 May 2000- 30 June 2002
Union Cabinet Minister, Health and Family Welfare
29 Jan. 2003- onwards
Union Cabinet Minister, Small Scale Industries; Development of North-Eastern Region

Books Published
(i) Dynamics of Development (Editor and Contributor);

(ii) Glimpses of Indian Technology (Co-author);

(iii) World Trade Organization (author);

(iv) Technical Report Series 791 upto 1990 (Geneva) Control of Leishmaniasis (joint author);

(v) Recent Trends in Leishmania Research (contributor);

(vi) Text Book of Medicine—API Text Book of Medicine (Joint author); and

(vii) India Under Atal Bihari Vajpayee, B.J.P. Era

Literary Artistic & Scientific Accomplishments

Published more than 100 research papers in medical journals and more than 200 articles in press;

Member,

(i) Scientific Working Group (Leishmaniasis), W.H.O. (Geneva);

(ii) Steering Committee (W.H.O. Geneva); and

(iii) Expert Committee (Leishmaniasis), 1988-2000;

Awarded,

(i) Padmashree;

(ii) BC Roy National Award (Indian Medical Council);

(iii) BKAIKET ORATION AWARD (Indian Council of Medical Research); and

(iv) P.N. Raju Oration Award (ICMR)

Other Information
Stood first and received gold medal in M.B.B.S. Honours;

Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and currently Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Patna Medical College; Chairman, Balaji Utthan Sansthan, Patna, 1994 onwards;

Member,

(i) Cardiological Society of India;

(ii) Indian Medical Association;

(iii) Indian Science Congress Association;

(iv) Association of Physicians of India;

(v) New York Academy of Science;

(vi) British Medical Association; organised and chaired many scientific meetings and symposia;

Revolutionised the concept of treatment of Kala-azar and recognised as an international authority in this field; and still supervising research on Kala-azar in Bihar; Member, Board of Governors, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, 1998

Pandit Jamuna Karzee :

Pandit Jamuna Karjee was born in a small village name Deopar near Pusa in Darbhanga District of Bihar in 1898. His father Anu Karjee was a marginal farmer who died when Jamuna Karjee was just 6 months old. He grew up under the loving care and guardianship of his mother.

For attending his primary and middle school classes, he had to walk daily to a nearby village Digrah about 6 km. from his home. He was a brilliant student and won a scholarship for his education in North Brooke Jila School at Darbhanga.

From his school days itself, he was drawn towards India’s freedom struggle and the Kisan Movement and Peasant movement under Swami Sehganandji Saraswati’s leadership. For higher studies he went to the Presidency College, Calcutta, and also obtained a degree in Law.

In Calcutta he came in contact with several freedom fighters and Congress leaders like Dr. B.C. Roy, Dr. Shri Krishan Sinha, Rahul Sankritayan etc. Spurning the offers of several government jobs, he became a Hindi journalist of repute.

He joined the editorial wing of Hindi weekly Bharat Mirtra published in Calcutta. He also took part in Gandhiji’s non cooperation movement from 1920-21 and was jailed in 1929-30 for taking part in civil disobedience movement and Namak Satyagrah.

He won the first election for Bihar and Orissa Assembly in 1937 as a Congress candidate. He was one of the strongest pillars of the peasant movement in Bihar under the leadership of Swami Sahajanand Saraswati.

He along with Rahul Sankritayan and other Hindi literaries started publishing a Hindi weekly Humkar from Bihar, in 1940. Humkar later became the mouthpiece of the peasant movement and the agrarian movement in Bihar. He was elected to the post of President Bihar Journalist association in 1947-48.

He died of cancer in October 1953 at an early age of 55. After his untimely demise the peasant movement lost momentum in Bihar and became rudderless.

As remembered by Mahesh Kumar Karjee Son of Jamuna Karjee Retired Dy. G.M., Public Enterprise, presently a free lance writer. (There is also a reference of Jamuna Karjee in Bipan Chandra’s Book. India’s struggle for Independence . Chapter 27, ‘Peasant Movement in the 1930s and 40’s’.)