Baijayant Panda
| Baijayant Panda | |
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| ବୈଜୟନ୍ତ ପଣ୍ଡା | |
| Member, 15th and 16th Lok Sabha | |
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Assumed office 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Archana Nayak |
| Constituency | Kendrapara |
| Member: Rajya Sabha | |
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In office 4 April 2000 – 2009 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Baijayant Panda 12 January 1964 Cuttack, Odisha |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Political party | Biju Janata Dal |
| Spouse(s) | Jagi Mangat Panda |
| Residence | Bhubaneswar, Odisha |
| Alma mater | Michigan Technological University |
| Profession | Industrialist, Politician |
| Religion | Hinduism |
| Signature |  |
| Website | Official Website |
Baijayant "Jay" Panda(Odia: ବୈଜୟନ୍ତ ପଣ୍ଡା) is an Indian politician, currently serving as a Member of the Lok Sabha. Elected from the Kendrapara constituency, he belongs to the Biju Janata Dal party. Previously, he had served in the indirectly elected Rajya Sabha, from 2000 to 2009.
He was born on 12 January 1964 in Cuttack to Bansidhar Panda and Ila Panda. He studied in the Michigan Technological University. With a background in Engineering and Management, he went on to work in the corporate sector before joining politics. He assisted the late Biju Patnaik and subsequently Naveen Patnaik, who founded the Biju Janata Dal party.
He married Jagi Mangat Panda on 13 August 1994 who is an industrialist and is currently the managing director of Ortel Communications Ltd.
Besides being active in Parliament and in his constituency, Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda has been championing several key initiatives. Some of his major efforts are given below:
Panda is a member of the Citizens’ Alliance against Malnutrition, a high level advocacy group composed of young parliamentarians, from various parties and other influential personalities. The goal of the alliance is to raise its voice against malnutrition so that collective national consciousness can be converted into action to eliminate the menace of malnutrition.
As part of the initiative, the alliance members travel across the country, visiting regions with high prevalence of malnutrition. On these visits they meet children, mothers, anganwadi workers, government officials and political leaders to understand why child malnutrition persists. They also raise the issue in different forums.
The work of the alliance prompted the Naandi Foundation to conduct, in 2011, the nation’s first ever large scale nutrition survey which captured nutrition data from over 100,000 children and interviewed more than 74,000 mothers. This survey, christened the HUNGaMA (Hunger and Malnutrition) Survey, was released by the Prime Minister in January 2012, at the behest of the alliance.
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