DATE OF BIRTH:  09/04/1950

  FATHER'S NAME:  Shri Somanath Pani

  MARITAL STATUS:  Married

  SPOUSE'S NAME:  Smt. Kiran Sundari Pani

  DAUGHTER:  2

  QUALIFICATION:  B.A

  PROFESSION:  Advocate, Agriculturist, Social Work, Politics, Journalism, Trade Union Leader, Industrialist

  FAVOURITE PASTIME:  Horticulture, Arboriculture, sports, reading and tours.

  SOCIAL ACTIVITIES:  Welfare of the poor, improvement of transport facilities.

  SPORTS AND CLUBS:  Badminton, President, Blue Bird Club and ten to fifteen other clubs in Orissa.

OTHER INFORMATION :  Practised as a criminal lawyer for 12 years, Vice-President, All Orissa Lawyers Association,   1986, as a student leader suffered imprisonment several times. District Vice-President, JD, Dhenkanal, Orissa, Member, JD State Committee.