Bhairab Dutt Pande

Bhairab Dutt Pande (March 17, 1917 - April 2, 2009)^[1] was the Governor of West Bengal (1981–1983), and Punjab (1983–1984), and the Administrator of Chandigarh for a brief period.^[2][3] Earlier he was cabinet secretary in Government of India. He was awarded Padma Vibhushan for his work. He was born in Almora, Uttarakhand.

He was one of the last living members of the Imperial Civil Service, having entered in the 1939 batch.^[4]

References

Governors of West Bengal Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari Kailash Nath Katju Harendra Coomar Mookerjee Phani Bhusan Chakraborty (acting) Padmaja Naidu Dharma Vira Deep Narayan Sinha (acting) Shanti Swaroop Dhavan Anthony Lancelot Dias Tribhuvana Narayana Singh Bhairab Dutt Pande Anant Prasad Sharma Satish Chandra (acting) Uma Shankar Dikshit Saiyid Nurul Hasan T. V. Rajeswar Saiyid Nurul Hasan B. Satyanarayan Reddy (additional charge) K. V. Raghunatha Reddy Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai (additional charge) Shyamal Kumar Sen (acting) Viren J. Shah Gopalkrishna Gandhi Devanand Konwar (additional charge) M.K. Narayanan D. Y. Patil (Acting) Keshari Nath Tripathi

External links

• Past Governors - 1981-1983 Raj Bhavan (West Bengal) Official website.