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GUWAHATI: Six many years after her loss of life, Meghalaya is making plans to put in a statue to honour Mavis Dunn Lyngdoh, who turned into the Indian subcontinent’s first lady minister 83 years in the past. As Meghalaya is celebrating the golden jubilee of statehood, Meeting Speaker Metbah Lyngdoh has written to Leader Minister Conrad Ok Sangma proposing to honour Mavis by means of erecting her life-sized statue.
“Appreciating the state authorities’s effort to rejoice the golden jubilee in a grand and befitting way, it’s going to even be correct for us to honour the past due Mavis Dunn Lyngdoh. I wish to request the federal government to believe placing one full-size statue of her at the premises of the State Central Library (in Shillong) and honour her for her success and repair to our folks,” Lyngdoh’s letter to Sangma reads.
Mavis was once appointed a Cupboard minister in Assam in 1939, 8 years ahead of Sarojini Naidu was once appointed because the governor of the United Provinces in 1947, turning into the primary lady to carry the place of business of governor within the Dominion of India. On the invitation of Sir Mohammed Syed Saadulla, Mavis, then elderly 33 years, had joined his authorities in 1939. Meghalaya, which attained statehood in 1972, was once then part of Assam.
Born on June 4, 1906 to H Dunn and Ka Helibon Lyngdoh, Mavis studied on the Welsh Undertaking Women’ Faculty, Shillong; the Diocesan Faculty and the Bethune Faculty, Kolkata, the place she acquired her BT level. She was once additionally the primary Khasi lady to qualify to practise legislation from the College Regulation Faculty, Guwahati.
Her political occupation started on the age of 31 in 1937 when she was once elected as a member of the Assam Meeting as an unbiased candidate. Because the well being minister, she created the posts of nurses in government-run hospitals, and girls skilled in public in addition to personal establishments had been appointed. There have been no state coaching faculties for nurses within the Northeast again then. Mavis, who by no means married, retired from politics in 1946 however faithful her lifestyles to social provider. She died in 1962.
GUWAHATI: Six many years after her loss of life, Meghalaya is making plans to put in a statue to honour Mavis Dunn Lyngdoh, who turned into the Indian subcontinent’s first lady minister 83 years in the past. As Meghalaya is celebrating the golden jubilee of statehood, Meeting Speaker Metbah Lyngdoh has written to Leader Minister Conrad Ok Sangma proposing to honour Mavis by means of erecting her life-sized statue.
“Appreciating the state authorities’s effort to rejoice the golden jubilee in a grand and befitting way, it’s going to even be correct for us to honour the past due Mavis Dunn Lyngdoh. I wish to request the federal government to believe placing one full-size statue of her at the premises of the State Central Library (in Shillong) and honour her for her success and repair to our folks,” Lyngdoh’s letter to Sangma reads.
Mavis was once appointed a Cupboard minister in Assam in 1939, 8 years ahead of Sarojini Naidu was once appointed because the governor of the United Provinces in 1947, turning into the primary lady to carry the place of business of governor within the Dominion of India. On the invitation of Sir Mohammed Syed Saadulla, Mavis, then elderly 33 years, had joined his authorities in 1939. Meghalaya, which attained statehood in 1972, was once then part of Assam.
Born on June 4, 1906 to H Dunn and Ka Helibon Lyngdoh, Mavis studied on the Welsh Undertaking Women’ Faculty, Shillong; the Diocesan Faculty and the Bethune Faculty, Kolkata, the place she acquired her BT level. She was once additionally the primary Khasi lady to qualify to practise legislation from the College Regulation Faculty, Guwahati.
Her political occupation started on the age of 31 in 1937 when she was once elected as a member of the Assam Meeting as an unbiased candidate. Because the well being minister, she created the posts of nurses in government-run hospitals, and girls skilled in public in addition to personal establishments had been appointed. There have been no state coaching faculties for nurses within the Northeast again then. Mavis, who by no means married, retired from politics in 1946 however faithful her lifestyles to social provider. She died in 1962.
