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Biography of chintamanrao deshmukh suhasini full

Chintaman Deshmukh was born on January 14, at Nata, near Fort Raigarh, in Maharashtra, in a land-holding family with a tradition of public service.

Chintaman Deshmukh played an important role in the Bretton Woods Conference in July , which lead to the establishment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International .

Chintaman Deshmukh had an outstanding educational career. He stood first in the Matriculation examination of the University of Bombay in , and also secured the first Jagannath Sankersett Scholarship in Sanskrit. He appeared for the Indian Civil Service Examination, then held only in London, in , and topped the list of successful candidates.

For most of his 21 years with the Indian Civil Service, Chintaman Deshmukh was with the then Central Provinces and Berar Government where, among other things, he was probably the youngest among those who held the positions of Revenue Secretary and Finance Secretary.

Chintaman Deshmukh was born in a Marathi-speaking family to Dwarakanath Raje-Deshmukh, a lawyer and Bhagirathibai Raje-Deshmukh (née Sule-Mahagaonkar family) on 14 January in Nategaon, near Fort Raigad, Maharashtra.

While on leave in London, he worked as one of the secretaries to the Second Round Table Conference in which Mahatma Gandhi participated. The memorandum submitted by the Central Provinces and Berar Government, which Deshmukh prepared, for the purpose of the enquiry by Sir Otto Niemeyer leading to the award on the financial relations between the Centre and the Provinces under the Government of India Act, , won him high acclaim.

Three months later, he was appointed Secretary of the Central Board of the Bank and two years later in December , as the Deputy Governor. He was Governor from August 11, to June 30, Chintaman Deshmukh proved to be an outstanding Governor. He also initiated a number of steps for building up an adequate machinery for rural credit.

In both of these institutions, Chintaman Deshmukh was a Member of the Board of Governors for ten years and was the Chairman at the Joint Annual Meeting of these two institutions held in Paris in Towards the end of the year, Jawaharlal Nehru asked Chintaman Deshmukh to work on the organisation of the Planning Commission and appointed him member of it when it was set up on April 1, Shortly thereafter, Chintaman Deshmukh joined the Union Cabinet as the Finance Minister and held that office with distinction till he resigned in July Financial policy was directed towards facilitating the achievement of rapid growth, social justice and economic stability.

He was also primarily responsible for such important landmarks in the area of social control of the financial structure such as the enactment of a new Companies Act, and nationalisation of the Imperial Bank of India and life insurance companies. A different phase of public service by Chintaman Deshmukh in the realms of education and social service was noticed since his Chairmanship of the University Grants Commission from to , helping to lay a solid foundation for the improvement of the standards of University education in the country.