Kondajji Basappa (born 12 November 1915,

Kondajji Kondajji is a village in Harihar taluk, in the Davangere district, Karnataka. It is situated about from the city of Davangere Kondajji is well known as a picnic spot and it is one of the major scout and guide training center in South India. A ...

Davanagere Davanagere is a city in the centre of the southern Indian state of Karnataka. It is the seventh largest city in the state, and the administrative headquarters of eponymous Davangere district. Hitherto being a cotton hub and hence popularly known ...

, Karnataka, India; died 14 November 1982, Bangalore, India) was an Indian politician who was the Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha for Davanagere, Karnataka and a leader in the Karnataka Scouts and Guides movement.

Biography

Kondajji Basappa was a graduate in science from

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and did his LL.B from Pune University. He took an active role in promotion of Scout and Guide Movement in Karnataka. Basappa entered into politics in the year 1962 by becoming MLA from

Davangere Davanagere is a city in the centre of the southern Indian state of Karnataka. It is the seventh largest city in the state, and the administrative headquarters of eponymous Davangere district. Hitherto being a cotton hub and hence popularly known ...

and elected twice as a Member of Parliament in 1971 and 1977. He served as the Union Deputy Minister for Health and Family Planning Basappa worked as Assistant District Commissioner, District Commissioner of Chitradurga, Assistant State Commissioner of Chitradurga Division and State Secretary before he became State Chief Commissioner. He held this post for the longest period from 1964 till he died in November 1982.

Career highlights

: 1942 : Assistant District Commissioner (Scouts) Davanagere : 1946 : President, District Board, Chitradurga : 1948 : Received Gold Medal for Public Service from the Maharaja of Mysore : 1950-1960: Member, Syndicate of the University of Mysore , District Commissioner (Scouts), Chitradurga : 1951 : Indian Representative , 7th World Scout Jamborre at Bad Ischl and

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in Austria. : 1955 : Assistant State Commissioner (Scouts), Chitradurga Division : 1962 : Elected to the Mysore Legislative Assemble from Davanagere ; Deputy Minister for Co-operation, Information and Excise, Mysore : 1962 : Headquarters Commissioner for Public relations, Bharat Scouts and Guides : 1962-1967: Chairman, State Handloom Advisory Board, State Warehousing corporation : 1963 : State Secretary, Bharat Scouts and Guides : 1964-1982: State Chief Commissioner, 1982 Bharat Scouts and Guides, Karnataka : 1967 : Re-elected to the Mysore Legislative Assembly from Davanagere : 1968 : Awarded the Silver Elephant of the Bharat Scouts and Guides in recognition for his distinguished services to the movement : 1968-1971: Member, Board of Regents University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore : 1969 : Secretary, Mysore Pradesh Congress Committee : 1971 : Elected as Member of Parliament ( Lok Sabha) from Chitradurga : 1971 : Establishment & Development of Scout and Guide Campus at Kondajji Village : 1972-1974: Union Deputy Minister for Health and Family Planning : 1973 : Indian Delegate to the World Scout Conference at Nairobi : 1974 : Leader of the Indian Team in the International Conference on Family Planning at Manila, Visited Thailand and Hong Kong : 1976 : Donated Rs 1

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for the cause of scout and guide movement in Karnataka : 1976 : Founder President of "Jaladarshini jananapeeta" a residential multipurpose Educational Institution, Kondajji Village. : 1977 : Re-elected to the Parliament from Davanagere Davangere (Lok Sabha constituency) : 1982 : Rajyotsava award for the meritorious services rendered to Scouts and Guides movement : 1982 : Died in Bangalore on 14 November.

References

*http://www.kondajjibasappa.com/ * Davangere (Lok Sabha constituency) {{DEFAULTSORT:Basappa, Kondajji Lok Sabha members from Karnataka Union deputy ministers of India 1915 births People from Davanagere district 1982 deaths India MPs 1971–1977