Mukul sangma

2018-01-16. en. 2018-02-06.

Mukul Sangma and 11 other Congress MLAs joined the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) in November 2021, making the TMC the main opposition party in the state.^[13]

Key Schemes & Initiatives

In 2015, Sangma launched the Meghalaya Health Insurance Scheme, a scheme to provide health coverage to families that exist below the poverty line.^[14] He launched Phase 2 in 2015, which aimed at providing a comprehensive health cover to the citizens of the state.

Sangma has launched multiple social assistance programmes, including the Special Wedding Assistance Scheme for orphaned girls over the age of 18^[15] and a programme for providing aid to single mothers and orphaned girls.^[16]

In 2017, Sangma launched the Life Programme (Livelihood Intervention and Facilitation of Entrepreneurship), aimed towards empowering people for economic prosperity.^[17] He also laid the foundations for the Shillong Government College of Engineering, the first engineering college in the state of Meghalaya,^[18] followed by two more colleges at Mawlai and Tura.^[19]

He launched "Mission Football", an initiative to promote sports in Meghalaya^[20] and develop the sports at a grassroots level.^[21]

In 2018, he launched a Career Guidance Program to offer specialized coaching support for underprivileged students.^[22]

Positions held

• Elected to Meghalaya Legislative Assembly in 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 and 2023.
• Parliamentary Secretary of the Government of Meghalaya between 1996 and 1998.
• Home and Education Minister of Meghalaya in 2003.
• Deputy Chief Minister of Meghalaya in 2005 and 2009.
• Chief Minister of Meghalaya from 2010 to 2018

Personal life

Sangma is married to Dikkanchi D.

Shira, who was an M.L.A., and has 4 children.^[23] His eldest daughter, Miani D. Shira,^[24] and his brother, Zenith Sangma, are also politicians.

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Notes and References

1. News: New Meghalaya CM poorer than coal mines-owning wife. 2013-03-05.

   The Hills Times. en-gb.

2. Web site: Mukul Sangma, Mukul Sangma Biography. He has been a member of the All India Trinamool Congress since November 2021; previously, he was a longtime member of the Indian National Congress.

   Early life and career

   Sangma was born on 20 April 1965,^[1] son of teachers Binoy Bhushan M. Marak and Roshanara Begum at Ampatigiri, now the headquarters of South West Garo Hills district.^[2] In 1990, he graduated in medicine from the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences in Imphal in 1990,^[3] and joined Zikzak Public Health Centre as a health and medical officer in 1991.

   Political career

   In 1993, Sangma was elected to the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly from Ampatigiri as an independent candidate,^[4] following which he was appointed the Chairman of the Meghalaya Transport Corporation.

   

   It is my binding responsibility to see that the state we have collectively built is protected from all perspectives, and that responsibility rests upon all the leaders,” Mukul, who had served as Chief Minister from 2010 to 2018, said.