BIOGRAPHY OF DRAUPADI MURMU

Draupadi Murmu was born to a Santali family on 20 June 1958, in Uparbeda village in the Baidaposi area of Rairangpur, Odisha. Her father Biranchi Narayan Tudu was a farmer. 

  Her father and grandfather were traditional heads ( designated Sarpanch) of the village Council ( Gram Panchayat) .Her family named her PUTI TUDU.

She was renamed by her school teacher to Draupadi, and her name was changed several times to those including Draupadi in the past.

EDUCATION 

Draupadi studied elementary education at the local primary school in Uparbeda.

At age five, she moved to Bhubaneswar for higher studies she completed secondary education from Girl's High School Unit-2 ,and graduated in B.A. from Rama Devi Women's College. 

Personal status 

She married Shyam Charan Murmu  a banker, in 1980 with whom she had two son's and a daughter.  Her husband, two sons ,mother, and a brother all died on a span of 7 years from 2009 to 2015 she is follower of Brahma Kumar's spiritual movement. 

Early Career

From 1979 to 1983, Murmu worked as a junior assistant at the irrigation department of the Government of Odisha. From 1994 to 1997, She then worked as a teacher at the school Sir Aurobindo Integral education and Research Center in Rairangpur ,where She taught Hindi,Odia, Maths and Geography.  She never claimed for a full salary at the school. 

She was chosen to serve as the ninth Governor of Jharkhand in May 2015 and remained in the position until  May 2021 .

She was nominated by the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) to run for the presidency of India in the 2022 election. 

  SHE ASSURED THE WOMEN AND THE YOUTH THAT THEIR INTERESTS ARE OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE TO HER. 

                     THOUGHT 

Duniya ka sabse Achcha gahna hai          "Parishram" 

aur sabse Achcha Jivan Sathi hai "atmavishwas"

 BY SUHANI DWIVEDI.