Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar

Who is Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar?

Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar is an Indian politician and the present Minister for Environmental Affairs in the Government of West Bengal. He is also an MLA, elected from the Mahisadal constituency in the West Bengal state assembly election, 2011.

His wife Dr. Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar has been involved in active politics under the stewardship of Trinamool Congress supremo, and present Chief Minister of West Bengal, Ms. Mamata Banerjee. She is presently an elected member of the 15th Lok Sabha from Barasat in West Bengal. Before his recent inductment into state politics he has been known as one of the leading infertility practitioners in India since 1981. He is widely recognized as one of the pioneers in test tube baby research in the country.

Education:-Dr. Sudarsan Ghosh Dastidar received his MBBS degree and also his M.D in Obstetrics and Gynecology from R.G.Kar Medical College, then affiliated to University of Calcutta. He subsequently visited several advanced centres for training such as 'Cornell University/ Weill Medical Center, New York; The Albert Einstein Institute' in the United States of America, Erasmus University, Netherlands and others. He met Prof Robert Edwards and went to Bourne Hall Clinic in Cambridge for training.