Biography :

Curriculum Vitae

Tathagata Satpathy

DOB: April 01, 1956 at Cuttack, Orissa, India

Education 

  • Educated at Sri Aurobindo Center of Education, Pondicherry, South India.
  • Subjects studied English, Philosophy and French
  • Can speak English, Oriya, Hindi, French

Occupation

  • Journalism & Publishing Editor Dharitri, published from Bhubaneswar and Sambalpur
  • Dharitri is the first Oriya daily to have an online presence.
  • The newspaper is 16 paged with a reach of 12,50,000 readers and has local, national and international news along with views that promote thoughts of a free and liberal world order

Elected Representative

  • Has been a Member of:
    Orissa Legislative Assembly (1990-95)
  • 12th Lok Sabha (1998-99)
  • 14th Lok Sabha (2004-09)
  • 15th Lok Sabha (2009-14)
  • 16th Lok Sabha (2014-present)
  • Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology 
  • Parliamentary Standing Committee on Coal & Steel
  • Parliamentary Standing Committee on Privileges

Other positions held

  • Member of Marine Product Export Development Authority, India (MPEDA)
  • President of Chacrateertha Bikash Parishad, Puri, Orissa: an organization focused on creating public awareness on the importance of environment protection and waste management
  • Working President Akhshyam Kalyan Samiti, Dhenkanal, Orissa: a voluntary organization aiding poor physically challenged children. This organization provides free accommodation, food, education and vocational training for 236 deaf & dumb and blind girls and boys
  • Founder and President DSM College, Koilpangi, Orissa: a twin stream higher educational institution (Arts and Science) imparting value added education to approx 400 students.
  • Advisor for ‘Nrutingyana’: an NGO providing a platform for talented young people in the state of Orissa in the sphere of dance and theatre

Activities

  • Convenor  of ‘UrJa-Itz My World’: an annual meet of over 120 girls representing various colleges from all parts of Orissa. UrJa provides a platform to these students to interact not only with each other but also with eminent personalities excelling in different spheres from India and abroad. The idea of ‘UrJa’ is to imbibe a spirit of competitive individualism that would help in making the participating girls worth and responsible citizens of a democratic society

Conferences attended

  • Representing India in Parliamentarians for Global Action, 1998 (New York)
  • Representing Indian Editors in conference on peace initiatives in South East Asia, 2002 (Karachi, Pakistan)
  • Representing Finance Committee of Indian Parliament at the UN (New York) 

Interests

  • Finance, Trade
  • Protection of natural resources (forest, mines, water reserves etc) in developing economies
  • Campaigning for new laws on crime against women
  • Information Technology and Telecom reforms 
  • Holder of valid Private Pilot’s Licence with over 300 hours of single engine experience

Short CV:

TATHAGATA SATPATHY
EDITOR, DHARITRI
MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, 16TH LOK SABHA

Tathagata Satpathy is editor of Dharitri, an Oriya-language daily newspaper published from Bhubaneswar and Sambalpur. The paper was the first Oriya daily to publish an internet edition. Mr Satpathy was a member of the 12th, 14th and 15th Lok Sabha (lower house of parliament) between 1998 and 2009 and served as a member of the Orissa Legislative Assembly from 1990 to 1995. He is presently the elected representative from Dhenkanal, Orissa in the 16th Lok Sabha.

His was a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, comprising the departments of information technology, posts, information and broadcasting, and telecommunications. He has served as a member of the Marine Products Export Development Authority, India. He was also president of Chacrateertha Bikash Parishad in Puri, Orissa, an organisation focused on creating public awareness of the importance of environmental protection and waste management, and working president of Akhshyam Kalyan Samiti in Dhenkanal, Orissa, a voluntary organisation that provides free accommodation, food, education and vocational training for 236 physically challenged children.

Mr Satpathy is founder and president of DSM College in Koilpangi, Orissa, a twin-stream (arts and science) higher-education institution imparting value-added education to approximately 400 students. He is also an adviser to Nrutingyana, a non-governmental organisation that provides a platform for talented young people in the state of Orissa in the sphere of dance and theatre; and convenor of UrJa-Itz My World, an annual meeting of more than 120 girls representing various colleges from all parts of Orissa.

Mr Satpathy was educated at Sri Aurobindo Center of Education, Pondicherry, South India.