Mrs. Supriya Sadanand Sule
Member of Parliament of India of the
Lok Sabha (House of People)
Elected with huge majority from Baramati constituency in Maharashtra as Member of Parliament.
Member of the Consultative Committee for Minister of Women & Child Development
Member of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resource Development
Member of the Board of Governors of the National Institution of Fashion Technology
"As a Rajya Sabha MP I travelled to many States and have first hand experiences. If I am to be a representative of this constituency, then I have to be connected. The people too have to feel close to me," she explains
A graduate in microbiology, she is managing trustee of the Pawar Public Charitable Trust and she runs schools for adivasi girls and children of nomadic tribes.
Ms. Sule is passionately involved with women's self help groups too.
She admits that she needs to work hard despite the goodwill of her father who has nurtured this constituency for several decades and who made way for her to contest this time.
" Women face water problems in some areas, there are schemes but not much is known about them."
What is worrying her most is the high dropout rate among the youth, especially in the eight or ninth standard. "Our higher secondary education has to be more in focus apart from the quality of education," she says.
The other issue is the lack of jobs for local people in factories and the educated unemployed. Like her father, she too feels that apart from agriculture, people should engage in some business to supplement their family income.
Her father was too well connected with the constituency and there is little opportunity for her to improve on what he had done, Ms. Sule admits.
I represent over 15 lakh voters and if I have to make a case for them in Parliament then I need to study their problems closely.
Actively Associated with:
Providing free books to 2500 Schools in Baramati with the help of IL&FS.
Bi-centenary special heritage "Asiatic Walks" programme of Asiatic Society, Mumbai.
Parivartan 2006: Prorgramme which helps Women in agriculture & self help group (SHG) empowerment through business of their products.
Working on the project to promote Education through Mobile Van for Course with the help of Yashwantrao Chavan Open University in Rural Maharashtra.
Institution working for upliftment of street children "Door step School and "Support".
Chetna Apangmati Vikas Sanstha, Kolhapur
