Bhawana Pundlikrao Gawali Patil

• 1999: Elected to 13th Lok Sabha (1st term).

• 1999-2000: Member, Committee on Commerce.

• 2000-2001: Member, Committee on Empowerment of Women.

• 2004: Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha (2nd term).

• 2007-09 Member, Committee on Health & Family Welfare.

• 2009 Re-elected to 15th Lok Sabha (3rd term).

• 2009: Member, Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture.

• 2014 Re-elected to 16th Lok Sabha (4th term).

• 2014 - Sept onwards Member, Standing Committee on Empowerment of Women, Human Resource Development.

Social and Cultural Activities

• Associated with Vidyarathi Janjagran Abhiyan and Yuva Chetna Manch.
  
• struggled for womens rights and justice.
  
• counselling to youth for their employment and self-employment opportunities.
  
• Worked for securing justice to the poor and the farmers in Washim and for getting remunerative prices for cotton growers.
  

Founder President 

• Mahila Utkarsh Pratishthan, Risod, Distt. Washim, 1998
  

Secretary, 

• Youth Movement, Risod, Distt. Washim, 1995
  
• Shri Mangalmurthy Prathmik Vidyalaya, Risod, Distt. Washim, 1997
  

Member

• Maharashtra State Social Welfare Advisory Committee, Mumbai, 1999 onwards.
  
• Special Interests
  
• Social work.
  
• National development. 
  
• Womens awakening. 
  
• Mobilisation of youth. 
  
• Fighting evils and working for the backward classes.
  
• Promoting agricultural research.
  

Sports and Clubs

• Table tennis.
  
• Badminton and other sports.
  
• Represented Amravati University at University Level Athletic Contest, 1992-93 
  

Other Information

Founder Chairperson, 

• Girls Sports Association, Risod, Distt. Washim, 1990
  
• Students Organisation (Girls Wing), Risod, Distt. Washim, 1991 
  
• Yuvak Vikas Foundation, Risod, Distt. Washim, 1994
  

Chairman, 

• Shri Balaji Co-operative Board, Risod, Distt. Washim
  

President, 

• Students Council, Arts and Commerce College (senior section), Risod, Distt. Washim, 1989-90 and (Senior section) 1992-93
  
• Pramukh, Shiv Sena Mahila Vibhag, Distt. Washim, 1998
  
• opened exercise schools in rural and urban areas for the youth and exercise lovers
  
• worked in the field of primary, secondary and higher education with the conviction that everybody has the right to education
  
• also started Bhavana Public School at Degaon. Rishod, District Washim, a place backward in education
  

Member, 

• Telephone Advisory Committee, Maharashtra Circle, Mumbai, 1999