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| name = Ashoka Gupta<br />অশোকা গুপ্ত<br />
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| birth_date = November 1912<br />
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| death_date = 8 July 2008<br />
| death_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]<br />
| occupation = Social worker<br />
| spouse = Shaibal Kumar Gupta<br />
| nationality = [[India]]n<br />
| parents = Kiran Chandra Sen<br />[[Jyotirmoyee Devi]]<br />
| children = [[Partha Sarathi Gupta]](son) <br /> Shakuntala Dasgupta (daughter)<br /> Kasturi Gupta Menon (daughter)<br /> Bishakha (Apala) Egan (daughter)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zz3eKF7NdlAC&q=Bela+Mitra&pg=PA68|title=Gupta Ashoka: In the Path of Service: A memoir of a Social Worker|last=Ashoka Gupta|year=2005|isbn=9788185604565|access-date=October 6, 2019}}</ref><br />
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'''Ashoka Gupta''' ({{lang-bn|অশোকা গুপ্ত}}; November 1912 – 8 July 2008) was an Indian freedom fighter and social worker.<ref name="ie">{{cite news |title=Gandhian Ashoka Gupta dead |url=http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/gandhian-ashoka-gupta-dead/333282/ |newspaper=The Indian Express |date=9 July 2008 |accessdate=18 September 2011}}</ref> She was the founder of Mahila Seva Samity, member of the All India Women's Conference and president of Indian Society for Sponsorship and Adoption.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://adoptionissa-kol.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=92&Itemid=88 |title=From the Desk of Founder Secretary Mrs. Saroj Sood |last=Sood |first=Saroj |publisher=Indian Society for Sponsorship and Adoption |accessdate=18 September 2011 |archive-date=2 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402144646/http://adoptionissa-kol.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=92&Itemid=88 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She took part in rescue and relief operation during the [[Noakhali genocide]].<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
Gupta was born the fourth of six children and second daughter to Kiran Chandra Sen and [[Jyotirmoyee Devi]]. Her father died at the age of six, and she was brought up by her mother, who struggled to bring her up along with five other siblings. She attended St. Margaret's school in [[Kolkata]]. She stood first among the girls in the matriculation examination. She graduated from [[Bethune College]] with honours in Mathematics. At the age of 20, she was married to Saibal Gupta, an I.C.S. officer.<ref name="ie"/><br />
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== Career ==<br />
In 1936, Gupta became a member of the All India Women's Conference, founded in 1929. She actively participated in setting up branches of AIWC and various welfare organizations. During the Bengal famine of 1943, she took part in relief work in Bankura. In 1945, she moved to [[Chittagong]] where her husband was transferred.<ref name="ie"/> In 1946, during the [[Noakhali genocide]], she led a team of relief workers on behalf of the Chittagong branch of the AIWC, for rescue and relief operations in Noakhali. After the [[Partition of Bengal (1947)|Partition]], she moved to [[Kolkata]] along with her husband.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}<br />
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After the [[Partition of Bengal (1947)|Partition]], she engaged herself in refugee rehabilitation, child literacy and uplift of rural women and tribals. She was the chairperson of the West Bengal State Social Welfare Advisory Board from 1955 to 1959. In 1959, Gupta became a member of the Central Social Welfare Board, at the suggestion of [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]] and [[Durgabai Deshmukh]]. In 1964, he took part in relief work among the [[Bengali Hindu]] refugees Mana and other camps in the Dandakaranya.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}<br />
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She was the State Commissioner (Guides) from 1956 to 1967 and the State Chief Commissioner of [[The Bharat Scouts and Guides]] from 1968 to 1974.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}<br />
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She was a Fellow of the Senate of the University of Calcutta from 1948 to 1953. She was associated with the Palli Sangathan Vibhag of Vishwabharati University from 1956. In 1965, she became a member of the Executive Council of the University and remained there till 1973.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}<br />
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== Honours ==<br />
In 2007, Gupta was bestowed upon an honorary D.Litt. in recognition of her work for the cause of women and children. She was also awarded the Jamnalal Bajaj Award in 2007.<ref name="Jamnanal Bajaj Award">{{cite web|url=http://www.jamnalalbajajfoundation.org/awards/archives/2007/women-and-child-welfare/smt-ashoka-gupta |title=Jamnanal Bajaj Award |publisher=Jamnanal Bajaj Foundation |year=2015 |accessdate=13 October 2015 }}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><br />
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== Publications ==<br />
* ''Noakhalir Durjoger Dine''<br />
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