REGISTERED No. D. 221
The Gazette of Endia
EXTRAORDINARY
PART I- Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 151 ] NEW DELHI, TUESDAY , DECEMBER 8 , 1964 / AGRAHAYANA 17, 1886
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MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi , the 8th December , 1964
No. 3 / 22 / 64 - Pub . II .- The President has learnt with deep regret of the death at Panjim in the early hours of Tuesday, the 8th December , 1964 , of Shri Mulk Raj Sachdev , Lt. Governor of the Union Territory of Goa , Daman and Diu .
Born on the 12th October , 1903 , Shri Sachdev received his school education at Quetta . After having his university education at the Government College , Lahore and Sidney Sussex College , Cambridge, he joined the Indian Civil Service in 1928. He held several important administrative posts and was Chief Secretary to the Government of Punjab from 1949 to 1953. His services were placed at the disposal of the Government of India in 1953 as Director- General of Supplies and Disposals . From 1954 , he was Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Works , Housing and Supply, and later in the Ministry of Irrigation and Power . He also served as Chairman of the Damodar Valley Corporation for some time .
On the 2nd September , 1963 , Shri Sachdev was appointed as Lt. Governor of the Union Territory of Goa, Daman andan Diu in which capacity he served to the very end.
In the death of Shri Mulk Raj Sachdev , the country has lost an efficient and experienced administrator . As Lt. -Governor , he endeared himself to the people by his sympathetic handling of the problems of the newly liberated territory of Goa , Daman and Diu .
HARI SHARMA , Spl . Secy .
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