Deepa Kaul

Deepa Kaul
Personal details
Born	April 12, 1944
Nationality	Indian
Political party	Indian National Congress
Profession	Politician, social worker, human rights defender, women's leader

Deepa Kaul (Hindi-Urdu, Kashmiri: दीपा कौल, دیپا کول) (born April 12, 1944, London) is a social democratic leader of the Indian National Congress and has headed ministries, including social welfare, culture, and tourism, as a member of the legislature of Uttar Pradesh. A political scientist by training, she is also a social worker and reformer. Her target areas have been women's empowerment, education, rights of visually impaired persons, and natural disaster relief. She has represented India in several international conferences on social issues, including the 1975 World Congress of Women on the Status of Women, Berlin, Germany, the 1982 Round Table Peace Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, and the 1983 Conference of the Foundation for the Welfare and Education of the Asian People, Japan.

Deepa Kaul is the daughter of Kailas Nath Kaul, a renowned botanist and agricultural scientist and Sheila Kaul, a social reformer and politician. She was married to Rattan Kaul, an Indian textile industrialist, in 1961, and has three sons. Deepa Kaul is a niece of Jawaharlal Nehru and a cousin of Indira Gandhi.

References

• [1]
• [2]

Persondata
Name	Kaul, Deepa
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	April 12, 1944
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death