22 Facts About Phulrenu Guha

Dr Phulrenu Guha was an Indian activist, educationist and politician, belonging to the Indian National Congress.

Phulrenu Guha was a member of the Rajya Sabha the Upper house of Indian Parliament from April 1964 to April 1970 from West Bengal.

Phulrenu Guha was the Minister for Social Welfare in the Indira Gandhi Ministry from 1967 to 1969.

Phulrenu Guha was elected to the Lok Sabha the Lower house of Indian Parliament from Contai constituency, West Bengal in 1984.

Phulrenu Guha studied in Gokhale Memorial Girls' School and Brahmo Girls' School at Calcutta for a few years, but passed her matriculation exam from a school in Assam.

In 1928, while Biresh left for England, Phulrenu Guha joined the Sorbonne in Paris.

Phulrenu Guha arrived in Calcutta in June 1938 and was reported to have brought Rs.

Phulrenu Guha [Phulrenu] was never constricted by indoctrination to a particular strand of politics in her initial years.

Phulrenu Guha could follow an ideology because she believed in it, could pursue it sincerely and reject it and change to another when it failed to satisfy her.

Phulrenu Guha served different State and Central Government associations in various limits.

Phulrenu Guha was Chairperson of the Task Force on Child Welfare Committee of Planning Commission, Government of India, from 1971 to 1972 and of the Committee on Status of Women in India from 1972 to 1975.

Phulrenu Guha was likewise leader of the Indian Council of Child Welfare from 1970 to 1973.

Phulrenu Guha was a Member of the Lok Sabha from 1964 to 1970.

Phulrenu Guha filled in as Minister of State for Social Welfare from March 1967 to February 1969 and Law from February 1969 to June 1970.

Phulrenu Guha's undertaking to make women financially independent through learning handiwork aptitudes proved to be fruitful when she established Karma Kutir, an art and crafts organisation in Kolkata.

Phulrenu Guha recalled that when the Government of India started providing grants then, women from Sri Lanka, Nigeria and Mauritius started participating in the training courses provided by Karma Kutir, alongside local women.

Phulrenu Guha recognized the commitment of her two collaborators Amita Das Gupta and Dr Maitreyi Basu behind the development of the foundation.

An adherent of equal rights for women, Phulrenu Guha was charmed when the Hindu Marriage Act was passed in 1955 giving equivalent rights to women for separation to end a marriage.

Phulrenu Guha called attention to the fact that the Hindu Marriage Code had given a privilege to either gathering to request the disintegration of a marriage.

Phulrenu Guha additionally noticed that the Act, in its current structure permitted to request for legal partition on some particular grounds as brutality, infidelity or incurable illnesses, for example, experiencing leprosy and venereal infections or if the life partner was of the unsound psyche.

Phulrenu Guha was married to the noted Indian biochemist Dr Biresh Chandra Guha on 17 July 1945, numerous years after they initially met.

Phulrenu Guha died 95 years old in 2006, in a maturity home she had established herself, and furthermore openly gave her assets to Calcutta University to set up the BC Phulrenu Guha Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology.