Name(s) NIRMAL KUMAR MUKARJI
Date of Birth Jan 09, 1921
Date of Death Aug 29, 2002
Identity Indian Last ICS to serve.
Other Events & Developments
  • Indian administrator and the last member of the Indian Civil Service to serve.

  • He was born in Delhi to Satyanand Mukarji, Principal of St. Stephen's College, Delhi.

  • Following the 1971 war, he was assigned to the Home Ministry as its senior bureaucrat. His time as Union Home Secretary was marked with clashes with the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, and her 'kitchen cabinet', including her son Sanjay Gandhi. On the morning that the Emergency was declared in 1975, he was transferred out of the Home Ministry and its control over the Police force to the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
  • He advocated for an end to the all-India administrative services, and their replacement by specialised professionals.
  • He founded and was the Chairman of the Pakistan-India People's Forum for Peace and Democracy, one of the first organisations to argue for people-to-people or 'third-track' diplomacy as a method of reducing tensions between the two countries.
  • Dec 08, 1989:   He became Governor of Punjab on this day.
  • Jun 14, 1990:    He retired as Governor of Punjab on this day.
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