N. N. Wanchoo

Niranjan Nath Wanchoo (also spelt Wanchu) OBE, ICS [1] (1 May 1910 – 20 October 1982) was a senior civil servant and later, Governor of the states of Kerala and Madhya Pradesh in India. He was educated at the Government College, Lahore and Kings College, Cambridge[2] and the Royal College of Defence Studies, UK.[1]

Niranjan Nath Wanchoo

OBE ICS
5th Governor of Madhya Pradesh
In office
14 October 1977 – 17 August 1978
Chief MinisterKailash Chandra Joshi
Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha
Preceded bySatya Narayan Sinha
Succeeded byC. M. Poonacha
6th Governor of Kerala
In office
1 April 1973 – 10 October 1977
Chief MinisterC. Achutha Menon
K. Karunakaran
A. K. Antony
Preceded byV. Viswanathan
Succeeded byJothi Venkatachalam
Personal details
Born(1910-05-01)1 May 1910
Satna, British India
Died20 October 1982(1982-10-20) (aged 72)
CitizenshipIndia
NationalityIndian
EducationGovernment College, Lahore
Alma materKings College, Cambridge
OccupationPolitician

Civil servant

He was selected to the Indian Civil Service in 1934 and began his career as a Sub-Collector in Bihar. Over the course of his career, he served, in among other posts, as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Defence and Chief Controller of defence production (1948-57), Secretary to Government of India, Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance (1960–61), Chairman of the Bokaro Steel plant (1965–70)[2] and Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Industrial Development (1968–70). He was also a member of Court of Governors of the Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad.[3] He retired as Chairman, Industrial Customs and Prices Bureau in 1972.

Governor

He served as the Governor of Kerala from 1 April 1973 to 10 October 1977 – with C. Achutha Menon, K. Karunakaran and A. K. Antony as Chief Ministers[4] and then as Governor of Madhya Pradesh from 14 October 1977 to 16 August 1978 with Kailash Chandra Joshi and Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha as Chief Ministers.[5]

Other roles

The Planning Commission appointed him the head of a committee to look into industrial development for the backward areas in India and to recommend fiscal and financial incentives for industries in these areas. The Wanchoo Committee recommended that a few areas be selected and fiscal and financial resources be spent to develop these into growth poles rather than spread out resources thinly but uniformly across all backward areas[6] He was also Chairman of Delhi Urban Art Commission in 1982.[7] He died on 20 October 1982.

References
  1. http://ndc.nic.in/contents/index/103
  2. http://www.rajbhavanmp.in/wanchu.asp
  3. http://www.asci.org.in/CourtofGovernors.aspx
  4. http://niyamasabha.org/codes/ginfo_5.htm
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 September 2007. Retrieved 7 August 2007.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. Vaish, Kalpana (1993). Entrepreneurial Role Of Development Banks In Backward Areas. Delhi: Concept Publishers. pp. 32, 35.
  7. http://duac.org/what_organisation.html
Preceded by
S. N. Sinha		 Governor of Madhya Pradesh
8 March 1971 – 13 October 1977		 Succeeded by
Cheppudira Muthanna Poonacha
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