Daying Ering

Daying Ering (1929–1970) was an Indian politician from Arunachal Pradesh.[2][3] He was the chairman of the Ering Commission which heavily influenced the country's panchayati raj system.

Daying Ering
Chairman, Ering Commission
In office
1964–1967
PresidentSarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Personal details
Born(1929-12-11)11 December 1929
Runne, East Siang district, NEFA, British India
Died21 June 1970(1970-06-21) (aged 39)
Shillong, India
NationalityIndian
Political partyNEFA Sangam
Spouse(s)Odam Ering
ChildrenNinong Ering
[1]

Biography

Ering was born in an Adi family in Runne village near Pasighat in 1929. He started his career in the Indian Frontier Administrative Service. Later, in 1963, he was nominated as a Member of the Lok Sabha from NEFA by the President of India. He was later appointed as the Parliament Secretary and a Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.[4]

In 1964, he chaired the Ering Commission, an investigative body looking into governmental decentralization.[5] The Commission's report, in 1965, recommended a four-tier system of local government, and heavily influenced the adoption of the Panchayati Raj system.[6][7]

Ering died in Shillong, in 1970. The Daying Ering Memorial Wild Life Sanctuary in the East Siang district is named after him.[8] Other places and institutions and places named after him include the Daying Ering College of Teachers' Education, Daying Ering Memorial Middle School, Daying Ering Wildlife Foundation Eco-Development Society and Daying Ering Colony. After his death, C. C. Gohain was nominated as a Member of the Lok Sabha from NEFA by the President of India.

References
  1. "Former Union Deputy Minister – Late Daying Ering". Government of Arunachal Pradesh. Archived from the original on 24 March 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  2. Nari Rustomji (1983). Imperilled frontiers: India's north-eastern borderlands. Oxford. p. 125.
  3. Rajani Kanta Patir (1999). Dawn in the East: An Autobiography. Vitastā. p. 63. ISBN 978-81-86588-04-8.
  4. "Obituary reference". Proceedings of the Second Session of the Provisional Meghalaya Legislative Assembly. 21 September 1970.
  5. Hamlet Bareh (2001). Encyclopaedia of North-East India. Mittal Publications. p. 78. ISBN 978-81-7099-788-7.
  6. Joram Begi (2007). Education in Arunachal Pradesh Since 1947: Constraints, Opportunities, Initiatives and Needs. Mittal Publications. pp. 16–17. ISBN 978-81-8324-211-0.
  7. Pratap Chandra Swain (1 January 2008). Panchayati Raj: The Grassroots Dynamics in Arunachal Pradesh. APH Publishing. p. 48. ISBN 978-81-313-0379-5.
  8. Pullock Dutta (13 June 2013). "Deer roam free in once poachers' den". The Telegraph.
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