Sponsor of PANE Young Researchers Award and Keynote Lecture
Bipinpal Das a towering personality of the country, was an academician per excellence, an astute politician who rose to great heights in the national field , a brilliant parliamentarian whose sharp debating skills and incisive comments commanded respect across party lines.
He represented India in the UN twice participating in a debate in 1971 and addressed plenary session in 1986. He was in Socialist party with Joy Prakash Narayan and Ram Monohor Lohia and was elected General Secretary of SP in 1955 at the period when this party was in the political horizon.
A person of brilliant academic career , stood first in matriculation from Jorhat Govt high school in 1938, B.Sc. Physics from Presidency college Calcutta and topped the list in MSc from BHU in 1945.
After a brief stint in Ashutosh college Calcutta as lecturer Physics he joined as lecturer Darrang College and subsequently as principal steered Darrang college to a centre of excellence before he moved over to Gauhati University as Inspector of colleges.
He joined politics in 1971as member of parliament thrice and rose to be Minister of External Affairs with Indira Gandhi in 1974.
He continued his association with the academic side and helped numerous colleges, university and also Tezpur university in various ways due to his strong presence and influence in both centre and state.
It is only thus befitting that PANE has honored his name by naming the key note address as BIPINPAL DAS memorial oration.
Any further information about the trust may be obtained from Dr Alakananda Das, Trustee Bipinpal Das Memorial Trust, email – dralakanandadas@gmail.com
XII Biennial National Conference of Physics Academy of North East (PANE2021) 