Chandrakant Raghunath Patil

Chandrakant Raghunath Patil
Member of the India Parliament
for Navsari
Assumed office
16 May 2009
Preceded by Constituency created
Personal details
Born (1955-03-16) 16 March 1955.[1]
Pimpry Akaraut, Edlabad, Jalgaon, (Maharashtra).[1]
Citizenship  India
Nationality  India
Political party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).[1]
Spouse(s) Mrs. Ganga.[1]
Children 1 son & 3 daughters.[1]
Residence Surat & New Delhi.[1]
Alma mater ITI.[1]
Profession Agriculturist, Businessperson & Politician.[1]
Committees Member of seven committees.[1]
Website http://www.crpatil.com/

Chandrakant Raghunath Patil is a member of the 16th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Navsari constituency of Gujarat and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party political party. In 2014, he won election with a record margin of 5,58,116 votes.[1]

Education & background

Patil was born in Jalgaon, Maharashtra. He received post-school technical training at ITI, Surat. Before joining politics in 1989, he was an Agriculturist & Businessperson.[1]

Social And Cultural Activities

Chairman,Fund Samiti for Chhtrapati Shivaji Smarak, Samit, Surat;President (i) Shri Saraswati Education Society, Surat; (ii)Maharastrian Vikas Mandal, Surat; (iii)Renuka Mata Charitable Trust, Surat; Ex.-President (i) Maratha Patil Samaj Mandal, Surat; and (ii) South Gujarat Textile Processor Association, Surat; Organised, (i) Samast Maharastrian Samaj Sammelan, Surat; (ii) Govinda Utsav Samittee, Surat; (iii) blood donation camps every year; (iv) more than 70,000 women under the banner `Modi Samarthak Mahils Mandal`, providing employment opportunities to women, and also providing food tiffins to 200 workers on daily basis; and (v) under the banner `Youth for Gujarat`helped youths in various social as well as cultural activities, and also provided Accidental Insurance cover to about 1500 youth who have donated blood in the camps; Actively participated in `Vanchitona Beli Vikas Yatra`organised by BJP; Actively involved in installation of the statue of `Chhtrapati Shivaji`, 29th May, 2008, Bilimora town, inaugurated by Hon`ble Chief Minister of Gujarat Shri Narendra Modi [2]

Transformed village 'Chikhli' under Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY)

Chikhli village, located in Navsari district of Gujarat, has been completely transformed within 1.5 year of its adoption under Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY), by MP Chandrakant Raghunath Patil. It was adopted in October 2014, to enhance its social, cultural, and infrastructural standard. The scheme says, members of parliament of all political parties had to adopt one village from their constituency and make it a model village by 2016.

Under this scheme first step was to clean the streets of Chikhli and then improving sanitation facilities for villagers, road construction, and making paver-block flooring in different places. A total of 380 toilets were built in Chikhli through a public-private partnership. For many women in the village, life has become easier after the constriction of these toilets because they no longer need to go out in the open to defecate. Village volunteers have played major role in the cleanliness drive and sanitation. [3]

First MP to get ISO Certification for his office

C R Patil has become India’s first Member of Parliament (MP) to obtain an ISO certification 9001: 2008 for his office. He was given the certificate for his office for quality management system that was applicable for monitoring and administration of the government services for the constituency.

Patil, who represents Navsari in south Gujarat in the Lok Sabha, received the prestigious certificate at a function held on January 9, 2013 in Surat by Sandeep Vig (Regional Director of Intertek Moody), a leading international provider of certification services, which did the audit work of the Patil's office. [4]

[5] He joined the Surat police in 1975 as a constable. He first courted trouble after a liquor hoard was recovered from a bootlegger's house in Palsana taluka in 1978 and his name cropped up in the police records as one of those involved. The same year, another prohibition case was registered against him at the Songadh police station. Patil was arrested by the Surat police Task Force and was finally suspended for six years from the job.

He remained clear of more trouble for a while, though police sources allege that his dalliance with the illegal liquor trade continued. Patil resumed his police job in 1984 and soon invited another suspension : this time for trying to form a police union. Later, he allegedly came into contact with the then-rampant octroi evasion racket, with the backing of some textile mill owners. The Surat Municipal Corporation charged a case of octroi evasion against him in 1995. Meanwhile, politics beckoned, and Patil joined the BJP in 1990. In four short years, he became the Surat district president.

In 2002, the Crime Branch arrested Patil as the chief defaulter in the Diamond Jubilee Cooperative Bank scam. Patil had taken a loan of more than Rs 54 crore from the cooperative bank and did not repay the amount causing the bank to be suspended from the clearing house in 2002. A majority of the lakhs of the account holders with the five branches of the bank were from the middle and lower classes, and many are yet to get their money back. Patil was soon made chairman of the state-owned Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Ltd.

He was in trouble again after he took 48 acres of land at Sachin to construct 65,000 flats for textile labourers. He made a down payment of Rs 6 crore for possession of the GIDC land on lease for 90 years on condition that the remaining amount will be paid soon. But he failed to do so and a court ordered the land to be sealed.

Crime Branch officers arrested Patil and his accomplices in 2002 and he had to remain in jail for 15 months until he secured bail from the Gujarat High Court on the condition that he would repay the dues. But did not do so, and was re-arrested. Patil moved the Supreme Court and later coughed up the money : Rs 88 crore towards the cooperative bank loan and the rest for the GIDC land lease cost, with interest.

Interestingly, Mr.Patil has one of the longest affadavits submitted to the Election Commission of India because of some of the aforementioned cases which are still pending in various courts.

Books Published

Editor and publisher, `Nav Gujarat Times`, a Gujarati daily newspaper since 1991

Posts Held

# From To Position
01 2014 - Elected to 16th Lok Sabha; Member, Committee on Government Assurances
Member, Standing Committee on Urban Development.
02 2010 - Member, Committee on Defence; Member, Jilla Takedari Samiti, Navsari Jilla; Member, Committee on Food Processing Industries; Member, Standing Co-ordination Committee, Agriculture and Co-operation Department, Gujarat; Chairman, District Village Developemnt Agency, Navasari; Vice-Chairman, District Village Development Agency, Surat.
03 2009 - Elected to 15th Lok Sabha
04 2009 - Member, Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests
05 2009 - Member, Committee on Defence
06 2009 - Member, Jilla Takedari Samiti, Navsari Jilla
07 2009 - Member, Committee on Food Processing Industries
08 2009 - Member, Standing Co-ordination Committee, Agriculture and Co-operation Department, Gujarat
09 2009 - Chairman, District Village Development Agency, Navasari
10 2009 - Vice-Chairman, District Village Development Agency, Surat
11 2008 - Member, Election Organization Committee, Gujarat Vidhan Sabha; Member, District Level Consultative Committee, Bank of Baroda, Navsari.
12 1989 - Joined Bhartiya Janta Party; Ex. Treasurer, Bhartiya Janta Party, Surat (for 5 years); Ex. Vice-President, Bhartiya Janta Party, Surat (for 2 years); Ex. Member Invitee, Executive Committee, BJP, Gujarat Pradesh.

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