Amar Kumar Bauri (born 1978) is an Indian politician and the current

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. He is the member of the

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. He was Minister of Jharkhand. Earlier he was associated with

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led by

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till Jharkhand Vidhan Sabha election in 2014. He is member of Jharkhand legislative assembly from

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constituency which is reserved for

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s in

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Early life

He was born in year 1978 to Ram Nath Bauri. He passed

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from R.D. Tata High School Jamshedpur in 1994, Inter from Co-operative College Jamshedpur in 1997, completed graduation from same Jamshedpur Cooperative College and post graduate in history from Ranchi University in 2005. He also completed Bachelor of Education from the Vinobha Bhave University

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in 2008.

Political career

Bauri made his electoral debut in 2004 as an

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candidate unsuccessfully. In the 2009 Assembly election, he had contested on the JVM (P)’s ticket from

, but had lost to

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of AJSU by a margin of 3517 votes. In the 2014 Assembly election, Bauri was elected as an MLA from

on the ticket of JVM (P) ticket, but soon he, along with five other party MLAs, joined the BJP-led government, merging their breakaway JVM (P) Legislature Party with the BJP. Bauri was inducted as Revenue and Tourism minister in the

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on 19 February 2015. He took some significant decisions such as building the Patratu Valley road and launching several religious tourism festivals. He had digitized a part of the land records and also started the popular Re 1 charge on properties registered in the name of women members in 2017 in a bid to empower them within their households – a scheme which was scrapped by the current JMM-led government headed by CM Hemant Soren in 2020. On 16th October 2023 he was appointed as the l

replacing

who had been appointed as the President of BJP Jharkhand.

References

External links

Jharkhand Cabinet Ministers

Amar Bauri

Jharkhand MLA

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