| Chhabila Netam | |
| Office: | Member of the 11th Lok Sabha for Kanker |
| Term Start: | 1996 |
| Term End: | 1998 |
| Majority: | 24,420 |
| Predecessor: | Arvind Netam |
| Successor: | Sohan Potai |
| Birth Date: | 1948 5, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Bhaismundi, Bastar district, Chhattisgarh, India |
| Party: | Indian National Congress |
Chhabila Arvind Netam (born 22 May 1948) is an Indian National Congress politician and member of the 11th Lok Sabha from the Kanker reserved constituency.[1]
Chhabila was born on 22 May 1948 in Bhaismundi village of Bastar district and did her matriculation from a local government school.[2]
During the 1996 Indian general election, the Indian National Congress (INC) party denied a ticket to Arvind Netam because his name surfaced in the Hawala scandal and instead made his wife Chhabila its official candidate.[3] [4] She polled 219,191 votes and defeated Sohan Potai of Bharatiya Janata Party (194,771 votes) to become the Member of Parliament from Kanker seat reserved for scheduled tribes.[5] However the house was dissolved well within one and a half years and Netam did not contest the election held in 1998.[6] She stood in the 1999 Indian general election but lost to Potai by a difference of 88,191 votes.[7]
Chhabila married Netam in May 1969 and together they have four children; two sons and two daughters. One of their daughters, Preeti Netam contested the 2008 Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election.[8]