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The Gazette of India

EXTRAORDINARY

PART I—Section I

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 53] NEW DELHI, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1966/CHAITRA 2, 1888 Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed as a separate compilation.

CABINET SECRETARIAT

(Department of Cabinet Affairs)

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 23rd March 1966No. 4(l)-Admn/66.—The Government of India have learnt with most profound regret of the death of Shri K. L, Ghei, Special Secre- tary to the Government of India and Director General, Bureau of Public Enterprises. Born on the 9th April, 1911, Shri Ghei took the Master's Degree from Government College, Lahore. He joined the Indian Railway Accounts Service in August 1937. After serving for about 7 years in the old North Western Railway, he held various positions in the Railway Board for 10 years. Among his notable contributions to the Indian Railways were his work as Secretary, Railway Grainshops Inquiry Committee, 1948 and Member. Railway Stores Inquiry Committee, 1950-51. During the last 12 years he was closely associated with the financial management of several Minis- tries, particularly industrial and commercial and served as Govern- ment Director on many important public enterprises. He visited ( 1 8 5)

several countries on Government business. In the development of public enterprises during the last decade, he played a leading role. In recognition of his ability and unique knowledge of the working and problems of public enterprises, he was selected to head the Bureau of Public Enterprises, when it was set up in March 1965. He was recently deputed as the Indian representative on the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee to examine the finances of the United Nations and the Specialised Agencies. It was during one of the visits in connection with this assignment that he passed away at New York.

Shri Ghei was a conscientious, hardworking an<3 devoted public servant who rendered valuable service to the Government in various capacities, particularly in the field of public enterprises. By his untimely death the country has lost an experienced and outstanding financial administrator.

The Government of India extends its deepest sympathy to Shrimati Ghei and other members of the family in their grief.

RAJESHWAR PRASAD, Joint Secretary to the Cabinet.