FULL NAME: Bishnu Charan Sahoo
GENDER: Male
BORN: 4th March, 1958
DIED: 16th September, 2019 due to cardiac arrest
PARENTS: (Father), (Mother)
ORIGINAL ADDRESS: Deban Patana, Jajpur, Odisha, India
PRESENT ADDRESS: Qrs No 2RA/6/3, Unit-8, Nayapalli, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, PIN-751012.
TELEPHONE: 8917257406 (Mobile).
EDUCATION: MA in Economics & Political Science; Bachelor in Law (LLB), Bachelor in Education (Bed) and Ratna in Hindi.
ROLE IN SPORTS: Para athlete

MAJOR PERFORMANCES/ACHIEVEMENTS:
*     Functioned as Vice-president of Paralympic Committee of India from 2013 to 2016.
*     He was known as pioneer of para-sports in Odisha.
*     Functioned as Secretary of Odisha Para-Sports Association.
*     Founded Odisha Paralympic Association in 2001.
*     Introduced para athletics, volleyball, rowing, fencing and badminton in the state.

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
*     On 23 July, 2018, he made a tweeter request to Amit Shah to join BJP.
*     On 14 May, 2018, he Naveen Patnaik requested through tweeter to let him serve for Biju Janata Dal (BJD).
*     A voluntary blood doner, he donated blood a record 154 times.
*     He was 75 per cent orthopaedically handicapped.
*     He is survived by wife, two sons and one daughter.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: 17 September, 2019