Nityanand Kanungo

Nityanand Kanungo
Nityanand Kanungo
6th Governor of Bihar
	In office; 7 December 1967 – 20 January 1971
Chief Minister	Mahamaya Prasad Sinha; Satish Prasad Singh; B. P. Mandal; Bhola Paswan Shastri; Harihar Singh; Daroga Prasad Rai; Karpoori Thakur
Preceded by	M. A. S. Ayyangar
Succeeded by	U.N. Sinha (Acting)
2nd Governor of Gujarat
	In office; 1 August 1965 – 6 December 1967
Chief Minister	Balwantrai Mehta; Hitendra Kanaiyalal Desai
Preceded by	Mehdi Nawaz Jung
Succeeded by	P. N. Bhagwati (Acting)
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
	In office; 1952–1957
Succeeded by	Surendranath Dwivedy
Constituency	Kendrapara
	In office; 1962–1967
Succeeded by	Srinibas Mishra
Constituency	Cuttack
3rd Minister of Industry
	In office; 1955–1957
Prime Minister	Jawaharlal Nehru
Minister of Commerce, Govt of India
	In office; 1957–1962
Personal details
Born	4 May 1900; Cuttack, British India
Died	2 August 1988 (aged 88)
Political party	Indian National Congress
Relatives	Sarala Devi ; (sister); Bhagirathi Mahapatra (brother in law);
Occupation	Politician
	Source: [1]

Nityanand Kanungo (4 May 1900 – 2 August 1988) was one of India's prominent politicians from the state of Odisha, who held successive high-profile portfolios in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet.

Early Life

Nityanand Kanungo was born in Cuttack on 4 May 1900 in an aristocratic Zamindar Karan family^[1] and was educated at Ravenshaw College and University College (Calcutta). His father was Dewan Basudev Kanungo, and his mother was Padmavati Devi. His sister Sarala Devi was the first Odia woman to join the Non-cooperation movement in 1921 and the first woman to be elected to the Odisha Legislative Assembly.

Public Life

He was a member of the Indian National Congress and served as a member of the Orissa Legislative Assembly from 1937 to 1939 and again from 1946 to 1952.^[2]^[3]

When Orissa was granted provincial autonomy as per the Government of India Act 1935, Kanungo served as the Minister for Revenue and Public Works Departments in the cabinet of Bishwanath Das from 1937 to 1939. He was again appointed a Minister in 1946 and served till 1952, looking after the Home, Law, Industries and Agriculture portfolios.

In 1952, Kanungo was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Kendrapara constituency. In September, 1954 he was appointed Union Deputy Minister of Commerce and Industry. From August 1955 in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet; he was Union Minister of Industries, and in June 1956 was designated Union Minister of Consumer Industries.^[4] In 1957, he was again returned to the Lok Sabha and was appointed Union Minister of Commerce. Kanungo was a member of the Indian Delegation to the International Labour Conference in San Francisco (1948) and was the Leader of the Delegation to the Conference of the International Rice Commission held in Jakarta in 1952.^[2]

In the 1962 Indian general election, Kanungo was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Cuttack constituency. He was Union Minister for Commerce and Industries, in the Nehru cabinet, and after the bifurcation of that portfolio, Union Minister, in turn, for Commerce and later for Industry. He finished up as Union Minister for Civil Aviation.^[2]

Kanungo served as the Governor of Gujarat from 1 August 1965 to 6 December 1967. He was the Governor of Bihar^[5]^[6] from 7 December 1967 to 20 January 1971.

References

^ Pradhan, Atul Chandra (1992). The Nationalist Movement in a Regional Setting, 1920-34: The Rise of Congress to Power in Orissa. Amar Prakashan. ISBN 978-81-85420-32-5.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Past Governors Nityanand Kanungo". Raj Bhavan Gujarat. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
^ Pranab Chandra Roy Choudhury (1971). C. F. Andrews: His Life and Times. Somaiya Publications. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-8426-0229-7. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
^ A. B. Kohli (1992). Ministries and ministers, a directory. Reliance Pub. House. p. 40. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
^ Meera Srivastava (1980). Constitutional Crisis in the States in India. Concept Publishing Company. pp. 92–. GGKEY:0BS5QYU7XF2. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
^ J. Paxton (28 December 2016). The Statesman's Year-Book 1971-72: The Businessman's Encyclopaedia of all nations. Springer. pp. 357–. ISBN 978-0-230-27100-5.

External links

Official Biographical Sketch in Lok Sabha Website

[1] Pradhan, Atul Chandra (1992). The Nationalist Movement in a Regional Setting, 1920-34: The Rise of Congress to Power in Orissa. Amar Prakashan. ISBN 978-81-85420-32-5.

[GRB-2] "Past Governors Nityanand Kanungo". Raj Bhavan Gujarat. Retrieved 31 December 2018.

[Choudhury1971-3] Pranab Chandra Roy Choudhury (1971). C. F. Andrews: His Life and Times. Somaiya Publications. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-8426-0229-7. Retrieved 31 December 2018.

[Kohli1992-4] A. B. Kohli (1992). Ministries and ministers, a directory. Reliance Pub. House. p. 40. Retrieved 31 December 2018.

[Srivastava1980-5] Meera Srivastava (1980). Constitutional Crisis in the States in India. Concept Publishing Company. pp. 92–. GGKEY:0BS5QYU7XF2. Retrieved 31 December 2018.

[Paxton2016-6] J. Paxton (28 December 2016). The Statesman's Year-Book 1971-72: The Businessman's Encyclopaedia of all nations. Springer. pp. 357–. ISBN 978-0-230-27100-5.

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