Sharad Anantrao Joshi

Sharad Anantrao Joshi

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Sharad Anantrao Joshi Profile

  • Name:
  • Sharad Anantrao Joshi
  • Born:
  • September 3, 1935
  • Died:
  • December 12, 2015

Sharad Anantrao Joshi Biography

Sharad Anantrao Joshi was a politician and writer from Satara, in the state of Maharashtra who founded the Swatantra Bharat Paksh party and Shetkari Sanghatana (Farmers' Organisation). He was an MP in the Rajya Sabha during the period 2004-2010. This leader is known for organizing several farmers’ strikes and agitations across Maharashtra. He organized farmers to form Shetkari Sanghatana – a non-political union to get rights what they actually deserve. It aims at "Freedom of access to markets and to Technology" .He was also instrumental in starting ‘Shetkari Mahila Agsi’ for the welfare of women of rural areas. In January 2010, Joshi was the sole MP in Rajya Sabha to vote against the reservation bill of women. It was Sharad who gave the initiative and basement of Indian Postal Code (PIN Code).

 

Sharad Anantrao Joshi was born in Satara on 3 September 1935. He took Master of Commerce from Sydenham College, Mumbai, in 1957. Then he did research works in banking and benefits of irrigation to society. He has received numerous prizes and awards for his works, including Cursetjee Dady Prize for work on Computation of Irrigation Benefits. Later he worked as a lecturer in the University of Pune, followed by Indian Postal Service (Class I) and Chief Informatics Service, International Bureau Switzerland. He initiated the system of PIN Code for postal services.

 

Later he worked for the welfare of farmers by organizing them. He started Shetkari Sanghatana, farmers' Organisation in Maharashtra and led number of mass agitations on agricultural issues in India. He is also founder Leader of ' Kisan Coordination Committee (KCC)', composed of farmers’ organizations from 14 Indian states. Spared a full life for the welfare of Indian farmers, he passed away on December 14, 2015 aged 80 at Pune.

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Updated: December 26, 2015

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