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{{short description|Indian writer and educationist (born 1950)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1950|10|26}}
| birth_place = Gachemora, [[Assam]], India
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| occupation = Writer<br>educationist
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| known for = [[Assamese literature]]
| spouse = Hema Prabha Gogoi
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| children = Two sons
| parents = Lakhan Tasa<br>Mukti Tasa
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]
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'''Prahlad Chandra Tasa''' (born 1950) is an Indian writer and educationist, best known for his writings on education.<ref name="Prahlad Chandra Tasa and Ajoy Kumar Dutta from Assam wins the Padma Shri awards">{{cite web | url=http://goassam.com/12480/prahlad-chandra-tasa-and-ajoy-kumar-dutta-from-assam-wins-the-padma-shri-awards | title=Prahlad Chandra Tasa and Ajoy Kumar Dutta from Assam wins the Padma Shri awards | publisher=Go Assam | date=25 January 2016 | access-date=14 August 2016}}</ref> He is the vice president of the [[Asam Sahitya Sabha]] where he has also served as a general secretary.<ref name="Executive list of Asam Sahitya Sabha">{{cite web | url=http://www.asamsahityasabha.org/?executive | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150412001102/http://www.asamsahityasabha.org/?executive | url-status=usurped | archive-date=12 April 2015 | title=Executive list of Asam Sahitya Sabha | publisher=Asam Sahitya Sabha | date=2016 | access-date=14 August 2016}}</ref> He has published several books on educational and social issues,<ref name="Penning a Success Story 1">{{cite web | url=http://www.sentinelassam.com/sunday/melange_cover_story.php?sec=7&subsec=0&ppr=2&dtP=2013-02-04 | title=Penning a Success Story 1 | publisher=The Sentinel | date=2016 | access-date=14 August 2016 }}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> including ''Asomor chah janagosthi'', an anthology of articles on the lives of the tea workers of [[Assam]].<ref name="Boruah2009">{{cite book |author=Chandra Nath Boruah |title=Assamese response to regionalism |title-link=Assamese Response to Regionalism |publisher=Mittal Publications |year=2009 |isbn=978-81-8324-281-3 |pages=102–}}</ref> The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]], in 2016, for his contributions to literature and education.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{Cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/PadmaAwards_25012016.pdf |title=Padma Awards |date=2016 |access-date=9 August 2016 |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803085913/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/PadmaAwards_25012016.pdf |archive-date=3 August 2017 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

== Biography ==
Prahlad Chandra Tasa was born on 26 October 1950 at Gachemora in the northeast Indian state of Assam in a poor family to Lakhan Tasa–Mukti couple and did his early education at the local primary school.<ref name="Penning a Success Story 2">{{cite web | url=http://www.sentinelassam.com/sunday/melange.php?dtP=2013-02-04 | title=Penning a Success Story 2 | publisher=The Sentinel | date=2013 | access-date=14 August 2016 }}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> After completing the schooling at Gachemora High School, he graduated from Dibrugarh Hanumanbux Surajmal Kanoi College and started his career as a school teacher at Bagmibar Nilmoni Phukan Higher Secondary School, then known as George Institution, on a temporary position, in 1973. While serving there, he founded ''Jamira Xahitya Xabha'', a literary organization and served as its founder general secretary. When the tenure of the temporary post at the school expired, he joined Jamira Tea Estate Lower Primary School where he worked for five years and moved to Rameswar High School as a teacher till 1985. It was this time he was appointed as the school sub inspector of [[Tinsukia district]]. He served in the education department for 27 years and superannuated as the Block Elementary Education Officer of Barbarua in 2012.<ref name="Penning a Success Story 1" />

Tasa was elected as the president of Dibrugarh Xahitya Xabha in 1995 and became the district president in 2000.<ref name="Penning a Success Story 1" /> In 2013, he was made the general secretary of the [[Asam Sahitya Sabha]] for a two-year term at the end of which he became the vice president of the organization, his term expiring in 2017.<ref name="Executive list of Asam Sahitya Sabha" /> He has published a number of books, on education as well as on the socio-cultural milieu of Assam. ''Asomor chah janagosthi'',<ref name="Asomor chah janagosthi">{{cite book | url=http://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/author/tasa-prahlad-chandra-editor/kw/tasa-prahlad-chandra-editor/ | title=Asomor chah janagosthi | publisher=Asom Sahitya Sabha | author=Tasa, Prahlad Chandra (Ed.) | year=2001}}</ref> a collection of articles edited by him is an account on the lives of the tea workers of the state.<ref name="Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark">{{cite web | url=http://www.antiqbook.com/boox/expat/BOOKS002462I.shtml | title=Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark | publisher=Antiq Book | date=2016 | access-date=15 August 2016}}</ref> His other publications include the poem anthology, ''Satabdi'', a biography, ''Byaktitor Sandhanot'' and prose writings such as ''Siksha Samikhya'', ''Siksha Anwesha'', ''Chah Bagichat Gana Sakhyarota'', ''Chah Bagichat Sikshar Prokhar'', ''Chah Shramikor Sanskritir Ruprekha'', ''Jhumoir Nritya Geet'' and ''Chah Shramikor Swasthya Chinta''.<ref name="Penning a Success Story 1" />

The Government of India awarded him the civilian honor of the [[Padma Shri]] in 2016.<ref name="Six from Northeast to receive Padma Shri, one Padma Bhushan">{{cite web | url=http://thenortheasttoday.com/tag/prahlad-chandra-tasa/ | title=Six from Northeast to receive Padma Shri, one Padma Bhushan | publisher=The Northeast Today | date=26 January 2016 | access-date=15 August 2016}}</ref> He is married to Hema Prabha Gogoi and the couple has two sons, Anadi Swami and Ananta Swami, both medical doctors. The family lives in [[Dibrugarh]].<ref name="Penning a Success Story 1" />

== See also ==
* [[Asam Sahitya Sabha]]
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== References ==
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