SOZ, PROF. SAIFUDDIN
[JAMMU & KASHMIR NATIONAL CONFERENCE - BARAMULLA (JAMMU & KASHMIR)]
Father's Name Late Shri Hakim Habibullah Date of Birth 23 November 1937 Marital Status Married on 9 November 1961 Spouse's Name Smt. Mumtazun Nisa Children Two sons and one daughter Educational Qualifications M.A.(Economics), B.Ed. Profession Political and Social Worker Permanent Address Noor Bagh, Baramulla-193101 (Jammu and Kashmir) Present Address 7, Tughlak Road, New Delhi - 110011 Tels. (011) 3017150, 3010782 Positions Held 1983-84 Elected to 7th Lok Sabha Member, Committee on Environment and Forests Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Education, Culture and Social Welfare 1984 Re-elected to 8th Lok Sabha (2nd term) 1985-88 Member, Committee on Public Undertakings Member, Committee on Estimates Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas 1989-91 Re-elected to 9th Lok Sabha (3rd term) 1996-98 Member, Rajya Sabha Member, Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests 1997 Union Cabinet Minister, Environment and Forests 1998 Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (4th term) 1998-99 Member, Public Accounts Committee Member, Commitee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Books Published (i) Kashmir Crisis; (ii) Why Autonomy to Kashmir; (iii) Secularism - an Interpretation; (iv) A Socio- Economic Survey of Gurez Valley; (v) Problems of Kashmiri Langauge and Literature; and (vi) `Daj' (A play in Kashmiri on abuses of Dowry system); Translation of M.Allin's book "1,00,000 Whys" from Russian to Kashmiri (the same was awarded Soviet Land Nehru Award) Literary, Artistic and Scientific Accomplishments Written essays and short stories in kashmiri; several articles in reputed Newspapers and Journals on a variety of subjects like Islam and Modernism, Rights of Women and secularism etc.;received, (i) All India Basic Literature Competition Award; (ii) Competition for Literature for Neo-literates Award; and (iii) Soviet Land Nehru Award Special Interests Environemnt and Foreign Affairs Countries Visited Widely travlled; represented India at the 12th Congress of Afro-Asian Solidarity Conference, Algiers, May 1984; Inter Parliamentary Conference, Mexico, April, 1985; International Conference on Peace, Copenhagen, May 1987; International Conference on Peace, Baghdad, April, 1989; Afro-Asian Conference on Peace and Solidarity, USSR, May 1989; Member, Parliamentary Delegation, Japan, October, 1989; Inter- national Conference on Alternative World Order, Kaula Lumpur, November, 1994; International Conference on Peace Movements, Tripoli, November, 1995; Conference on Ethnic Conflict in South Asia, Colombo, June 1996; Ministerial Conference on Commission on Sustainable Development, Dresden, Germany, March 1997; Chief Guest at Male (Maldives) representing Government of India at the inauguration of Maldives Institute of Technical Education (May, 1997); Leader, Delegation to the Ministerial Conference on U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification in Asia, Beijing (May, 1997); Leader, Indian Delegation to the Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGASS) to review implementation of Agenda 21 (21-30 June 1997); visited Austria (3-8 July, 1997) to hold bilateral discussions with the Environment Minister of Austria on conservation of water bodies, solid waste management etc,1997; attended IXth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (15-17 September, 1997, Montreal, Canada); First Conference of Parties of Convention to Combat Desertification (8-11 October, 1997, Rome); Leader of Indian Delegation at XIth World Forestry Conference (11-16 October, 1997, Antalya, Turkey); and Leader of India Delegation at the Conference of Parties-3 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Kyoto, Japan, 1997; Member, Official Delegation led by the President of India, Shri K. R. Narayanan to Germany, Luxemburg, Portugal and Turkey, 1998 Other Information Professor in Economics at Colleges affiliated to the University of Jammu and Kashmir; held high positions in University and School Administration of the Jammu and Kashmi Government; Member, (i) Court of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; (ii) Academic Council, University of Kashmir; (iii) Academic Council, Board of School Education, Jammu & Kashmir; (iv) Bureau of Promotion of Urdu; (v) Court of Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh; (vi) Court of Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi; (vii)National Integration Council; (viii) Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Letters; (ix) Foreign Affairs Club of India; (x) India International Centre; and (xi) Animal Welfare Board of India, 1998; (xii) National Book Trust of India; and (xiii) Advisory Committee on Kashmiri Sahitya Academy
Our Other Sites IndianPost.com AllIndiaNews.com RajPurohit.comTotal electorate 7,61,265 Total votes polled 3,18,415 Votes polled in favour of the first four leading candidates (1) Prof. Saifuddin Soz (J.K.N.C.) 1,30,574 (2) Shri Muzaffar Hussain Baig (Ind.) 92,780 (3) Shri Abdul Majid Gawali (J.K.A.L.) 20,833 (4) Shri Abdul Gani Vakil (I.N.C.) 11,682
Election Result of Baramulla Lok Sabha Constituency