Early Life and Education
Early Life
Dr. Deo Shankar Navin was born on 02.08.1962 in a humble family of village Mohanpur, Nauhatta Block, Saharsa District, Bihar. His mother Radha Devi was a farmer's daughter of a famous Indian origin Paliwar Mahisi. She passed away on 14th June 2005. Father Padmanad Jha was a very popular and esteemed teacher in a secondary school in a nearby village, Muradpur. At the age of eighty-six, he died on 25th December 2011.
Although the tiny agricultural landholding was not enough to bring him a square meal and his family was entirely dependent on the salary of his father, upbringing of Deo Shankar Navin took place in an agricultural milieu that might be the cause of his peasant attitude. His parents were of peculiar conventional temperament but despite illiteracy his mother was relatively progressive. Despite all devotion to his parents he used to confront them on issues of progressiveness off and on. Dr. Deo Shankar Navin's stubborn nature is inherited from his parents.
Blessed with three younger sisters - Saroj, Punita, and Anisha (Noona) Deo Shankar Navin lost two of them, Saroj and Anisha (Noona), in dowry harassment in their early age.
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