Jayanti Patnaik

{{Short description|Indian parliamentarian and social worker (1932–2022)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Jayanti Patnaik

| image =J Patnaik.tif

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| birth_date ={{Birth date |1932|4|7|df=y}}

| birth_place =Aska, Orissa, British India

| residence =

| death_date ={{Death date and age|2022|09|28|1932|4|7|df=y}}{{cite news |last1=Ranjan |first1=Rashmi |title=Jayanti Patnaik, wife of former Odisha CM Janaki Ballabh Patnaik, passes away |url=https://odishatv.in/news/miscellaneous/jayanti-patnaik-wife-of-former-odisha-cm-janaki-ballabh-patnaik-passes-away-186609 |access-date=28 September 2022 |work=Odisha TV |date=28 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928180046/https://odishatv.in/news/miscellaneous/jayanti-patnaik-wife-of-former-odisha-cm-janaki-ballabh-patnaik-passes-away-186609 |archive-date=28 September 2022 |language=English |url-status=live}}

| death_place = Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

| constituency = Cuttack and Berhampur

| office = Member of Parliament

| office2 = Member of Parliament

| term = 1980–1989; 1998–1999

| predecessor = Janaki Ballabh Patnaik

| successor =Srikant Jena

| predecessor2 = P. V. Narasimha Rao

| successor2 = Anadi Charan Sahu

| party = Indian National Congress

| spouse = Janaki Ballabh Patnaik

| website =

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| source = http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok12/biodata/12or11.htm parliamentofindia.nic.in

}}

Jayanti Patnaik (7 April 1932 – 28 September 2022) was an Indian politician and social worker.[http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok12/biodata/12or11.htm Biographical Sketch: Member of Parliament, 12th Lok Sabha] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140112033729/http://parliamentofindia.nic.in:80/ls/lok12/biodata/12or11.htm |date=12 January 2014 }} Parliament of India She was the first Chairperson of the National Commission for Women. Her term of office was from 3 February 1992 to 30 January 1995.{{cite web |url=http://tisstory.tiss.edu/images/tisstory/doc/mrs-jayanti-patnaik.pdf |title=Jayanti Patnaik |publisher=School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. |accessdate=15 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140402153918/http://tisstory.tiss.edu/images/tisstory/doc/mrs-jayanti-patnaik.pdf |archive-date=2 April 2014 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://ncw.nic.in/frmabtbreifhistory.aspx |title=Brief History |publisher=National Commission for Women |accessdate=15 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322143848/http://ncw.nic.in/frmABTBreifHistory.aspx |archive-date=22 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://ncw.nic.in/frmListChairpersons.aspx |title=List of chairpersons of NCW |publisher=National Commission for Women |accessdate=15 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140206163943/http://ncw.nic.in/frmListChairpersons.aspx |archive-date=6 February 2014 |url-status=dead }}