| Name(s) |
Chandrika Prasad
(C.P.) SRIVASTAVA |
| Date of
Birth |
July 08, 1920 |
| Date of
death |
July 22, 2013 |
|
Identity |
Indian civil
servant, international administrator and diplomat |
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He started his career as a civil
servant in India.
- Joint Secretary to the Indian
Prime Minister's office from
1964-1966, during the premiership of
Lal Bahadur Shastri.
- He became the first
chief executive of the Shipping
Corporation of India.
- In 1974 he was elected to serve
as the Secretary-General of
the International Maritime
Organization (IMO), a U.N.
agency based in London, serving
successive four-year terms as
Secretary-General from 1974 to 1989.
- He played a pioneering role in
the establishment of the
International Maritime Academy
in Italy, and the
International Maritime Law Institute
in Malta.
- He was also the first
Chancellor of the Sweden-based World
Maritime University which
was founded in 1983 to address a
pressing need for maritime
professionals in the developing
world.
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| Awards
and Accolades |
- Padma Bhushan
in 1972.
- In 2005 he received the 2004
Lal Bahadur Shastri National
Award for Excellence in Public
Administration and Management
Sciences.
- Padma Vibhushan,
in 2009.
Order of Naval Merit Admiral Padilla
of Colombia – 1978
Great Friend of the Seas Award,
Colombia – 1978
Commander of the Order of Maritime
Merit of France –
1982
Commander of the Order of St. Olav
of Norway – 1982
Grand Officer of the Order of Merit
of the Italian Republic
– 1983
Commander of the Order of Prince
Henry of Portugal –
1983
The Gold Order of Distinguished
Seafarers, Poland –
1983
Nautical Medal, 1st Class of
Greece – 1983
Grand Cross (distinctivo blanco) of
the Order of the Peru
Cross of Naval Merit – 1984
Grand Cross of the Order of Manuel
Amador Guerrero of Panama
– 1985
Grand Officer of the Order of Naval
Merit of Brazil –
1986
Commandery of the Order of Merit of
the People's Republic of
Poland – 1988 (now the
Commander's Cross of the Order of
Merit of Poland)
Knight Grand Commander of the Humane
Order of African Redemption of
Liberia – 1989
Commander Grand Cross of the Order
of the Polar Star of Sweden
−1989
Order of Merit, 1st Grade – 1990
In 1990, conferred by
Elizabeth II, the title of
Honorary Knight Commander of
the Most Distinguished Order of
Saint Michael and Saint George
(KCMG).
Commander By Number of the Order of
Isabel the Catholic of Spain,
2nd Class – 1994
Commander of the Naval Order of
Admiral Padilla of Colombia
– 2004
Source:
Wikipedia
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