Full Name

Karthik Oraon

Date Of Birth

29 October 1924

Birth Place

Litatoli village , Gumla district ,Jharkhand

Father’s Name

Jaira Oraon 

Mother’s Name

Birsi Oraon

Community

Kurukh Tribe

Nickname

black diamond of Chotanagpur 

Baba Kartik Saheb.

Education

High schooling from Gumla in 1942

Intermediate : Science College, Patna

Bachelor of engineering :  Bihar College of Engineering, Patna

Higher Education : Great Britain

Profession

Politician

Date Of Death

8 December 1981 ,New Delhi

Kartik Oraon Life introduction 👍

• Recently, on 29 October 2022, the 98th birth anniversary of Kartik Oraon was celebrated. 

• Karthik Oraon was born on 29 October 1924 in Litatoli village of Gumla district ,Jharkhand.

• He was born in Kurukh Tribe community

• In 1959, Karthik Oraon gave the draft of the world’s largest automatic power station “Hinckley Nuclear Power Plant” to the British Government.

• Karthik Oraon was the first man who started ,movement to save the tribals from looting their land.

• Karthik Oraon returned to india in May 1961 after living abroad for 9 years.

• He died on 8 December 1981.

Kartik Oraon Career : 

• He was on the post of Superintendent Construction Designer in HEC, Ranchi.

• He became an MP three times and an MLA once.

• At the behest of Jawaharlal Nehru, in the year 1962, he participated in the Lok Sabha elections from Congress party in 1962 from Lohardaga parliamentary constituency, but lost the election.

• He became an MP from Lohardaga in the 1967, 1971 and 1980 Lok Sabha elections.

• He become minister for aviation and communication of Government of India.

• After losing the Lok Sabha elections in 1977, he won the elections from Bishunpur Vidhan Sabha in 1977.

Kartik Oraon Awards and Honours : 

• Kartik Oraon is known as the black diamond of Chotanagpur or Baba Kartik Saheb.