Shashi Panja | |
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Cabinet Minister, Government of West Bengal | |
Assumed office 10 May 2021 | |
Governor | Jagdeep Dhankhar La. Ganesan (additional charge) C. V. Ananda Bose |
Chief Minister | Mamata Banerjee |
Department | |
Minister of State (Independent Charge),Government of West Bengal | |
In office 2016–2021 | |
Governor | Keshari Nath Tripathi Jagdeep Dhankhar |
Department | |
Chief Minister | Mamata Banerjee |
Preceded by | Sabitri Mitra |
Succeeded by | Herself (as cabinet minister) |
Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
Assumed office 2011 | |
Preceded by | Jiban Prakash Saha |
Constituency | Shyampukur |
Personal details | |
Born | Calcutta (now Kolkata),West Bengal | 4 October 1962
Political party | All India Trinamool Congress |
Spouse | Prasun Kumar Panja |
Children | Pooja and Namrata |
Residence(s) | 250 Chittaranjan Avenue,Calcutta-700006 |
Alma mater | R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital |
Shashi Panja is a medical practitioner and politician who currently serves as Cabinet Minister for Industries,Commerce &Enterprises and Department of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare of the Government of West Bengal.
Panja born in a Telugu family hailing from Tenali in Andhra Pradesh. Her father Pillalamari T Krishnaiyya was the Chief Industrial Engineer at Hindustan Motors &had settled in the town of Hindmotor. She did her MBBS from R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital at Kolkata,with specialisation in ultrasound and infertility practice. She married Prasun Kumar Panja,son of the veteran politician Ajit Kumar Panja. [1] [2] [3]
Panja was elected a councillor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation in 2010 and was appointed mayoral council member in charge of education. [4]
She was elected to the West Bengal State Assembly from Shyampukur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in 2011 [5] and re-elected in 2016 and 2021 from same constituency.
She was inducted into the Council of Ministers of West Bengal as a minister of state and given independent charge of the women &child welfare ministry in December 2013. [6] In May 2014,she was given additional charge of the social welfare department. [7]
In 2021 she was sworn in as the cabinet minister as a part of the 21st Council of Ministers for the state of West Bengal under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee with the portfolios of Department of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare.
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