Nitish Sengupta

Nitish Kumar Sengupta (23 September 1934 − 3 November 2013) studied at Jhargram Kumud Kumari Institution and graduated with Gold Medal's in his Bachelors and Masters (First class First in History Honors from Presidency College when it was affiliated to the University of Calcutta. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1957 and has held positions such as the Revenue Secretary of the Government of India and Member Secretary, the Indian Planning Commission. He represented India in the UN Commission on Transnational Corporations and was elected as Chairman 1981-82. His official biodata is available at the Lok Sabha, Parliament of India website. [1]

Academician, administrator, politician and author, Nitish Sengupta studied at Presidency College, Kolkata, winning a gold medal for his master’s in history. He began his career as assistant professor of history and joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1957. He held key posts in the Union government including revenue secretary and member-secretary, Planning Commission. After completing his doctorate in management from Delhi University, he lectured at several universities and leading management schools in the country. After his retirement, he was director-general of the International Management Institute, New Delhi. Nitish Sengupta has represented India at various UN bodies and was elected chairman of the UN Commission on Transnational Corporations. He joined politics in 1996 and was elected to the Thirteenth Lok Sabha, where he served as member of several key committees, notably the Public Accounts Committee. He was also general secretary, All India Trinamool Congress. Currently, he holds the position of Chairman, Board for Reconstruction of Public Sector Enterprises, New Delhi. He has been a regular columnist in leading dailies and is the author of twelve books, including several related to management. As a historian, his well-known works are History of the Bengali-speaking People, Dr B.C. Roy, Biography and Bengal Divided. He has also authored Unshackling of Indian Industry, Government and Business, Inside the Steel Frame and My Times—A Civil Servant Remembers.<https://penguin.co.in/author/nitish-sengupta/></ref>

Sengupta played a key role in the revitalization of India's capital markets in the 1980s. He had earlier been a diligent builder [2] of the Licence Raj while he was deputy secretary in the Department of Company Affairs from March 1968, just as government policy was changing from what he called 'benign aloofness' to 'massive intervention in corporate business', most notably in the nationalization of major Indian banks in 1969.[2]

He wrote 12 books on management and history, including "The Land of Two Rivers", "My Times" and "The History of the Bengali-speaking People". He used to live in Chittaranjan Park, New Delhi, India.

He died from a cardiac arrest in New Delhi on 3 November 2013.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Sengupta, Dr. Nitish". Parliament of India - Lok Sabha. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  2. 1 2 McDonald, Hamish (2010). Ambani & Sons: The Making of the World's Richest Brothers and Their Feud. Australia: Lotus-Roli. pp. 68–69. ISBN 978-81-7436-814-0.
  3. ↑ "Former MP Nitish Sengupta Dead". Outlook India. 3 November 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
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