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Subject: Baijayant Panda / Early life & education
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Cuttack · 1964
Early life & education
What the public record establishes about Baijayant Panda’s origins and training is brief and precise. This page records it without embellishment.
RecordBorn 12.01.1964Cuttack, Odisha
Cuttack
Baijayant Panda was born on 12 January 1964 in Cuttack, in the state then known as Orissa and now Odisha. The Lok Sabha member record gives this date and place of birth.1 Cuttack, on the Mahanadi delta, was the state’s capital until the capital moved to Bhubaneswar in the late 1940s.
The same record lists his parents as the late Dr Bansidhar Panda and the late Ila Panda.1 Dr Bansidhar Panda founded Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys Ltd (IMFA) in 1961, according to the company.2 That enterprise comes up again in the Professional Journey chapter.
Education
- Institution
- Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
- Programme (as recorded)
- Dual Degree Course in Engineering and Management in Communications
- Year of completion
- Not stated in the official record
- Source
- Lok Sabha member record, Digital Sansad1
Engineering & management
His degree paired engineering with management, and his work before politics was in industry. The Lok Sabha record lists his profession as “Social Worker / Industrialist”.1 His official biography describes his involvement with industry bodies and with IMFA, where he is listed as Vice Chairman.3
This archive records the sequence, not a cause. No available source explains how his education shaped his later career or his public-policy interests, so no such link is claimed here.