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PAWAN KUMAR CHAMLING - THE FIFTH CHIEF MINISTER OF SIKKIM :
Full Name PAWAN KUMAR CHAMLING
Literary Name PAWAN CHAMLING 'KIRAN'
Date of Birth 22nd SEPTEMBER, 1950
Place of Birth YANGYANG, SOUTH SIKKIM
Education MATRICULATION, THEREAFTER SELF-TAUGHT
Entry in the Field FROM THE STUDENT LIFE ITSELF
First Published Work BIR KO PARICHAY (POEM) 196

National Award
BHARAT SHIROMANI (Presented by the Vice-President of India for National integration and preservation of democracy in the State).
CHINTAN PURASKAR(Awarded by Sikkim Sahitya Parishad in 1987 for the best Poem).
SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION
Mr. pawan Kumar Chamling's social and philanthropic works include donation of sites for schools and agriculture lands to landless peasants. The program for constructing homes has also been started.
It is during his present tenure as chief Minister that the State Government has kept aside 70% of the total Plan Outlay for the development of the rural areas of the state and other poverty alleviation programs. As a part of SDF Governments commitment to uplift the poor and downtrodden of the state wages of daily labourers have been increased by 100 per cent. To encourage family planning and provide adequate social security to women, a scheme under the style of Planned Family Scheme is being launched by the year 2007 exclusively for women. His Government has also kept 50 % job reservation for the women and 3% for handicapped persons.

All the students upto Class - V are being provided with free uniforms while textbook and exercise books and supplied free of cost at all levels. Education is free up to College level.

His basic motto in politics is that labour should not be deprived of its reward.

Mr. Chamling's historic endeavor to ensure that Sikkim's integration into the mainstream of national life is nurtured with sensitivity, thus paving the way for the emotional integration as well with the rest of the country is praised by one and all and for which he has also received the most coveted award BHARAT SHIROMANI. He is out and out a nationalist with a great source of responsibility towards the nation.