V. C. Pande
Vinod Chandra Pande | |
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| 11th Cabinet Secretary of India | |
| In office 23 December 1989 – 11 December 1990 | |
| Prime Minister | V. P. Singh |
| Preceded by | T. N. Seshan |
| Succeeded by | Naresh Chandra |
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| Born | 16 February 1932 Allahabad University |
Vinod Chandra Pande (16 February 1932 – 7 February 2005) was an Indian Civil Servant of the Rajasthan Cadre, and was, notably, Cabinet Secretary in 1989–1990. He was a prolific writer and an erudite astrologer.
He was born to a family which contributed two other Cabinet Secretaries (B. D. Pande and Kamal Pande). His elder brother was noted scholar and historian Govind Chandra Pande
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He served as Governor of Bihar (1999–2003), Jharkhand (briefly during 2002), and Arunachal Pradesh (2003–04), as an appointee of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.
He had been a bachelor. He was a scholar of Hindi, Pali, and Sanskrit, and a prolific writer in Hindi. He died in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, two months after leaving the governorship of Arunachal Pradesh.
Further reading
- Cabinet Secretariat, India
- Bihar Raj Bhavan
- Jharkhand Raj Bhavan
- Transfer to Arunachal Raj Bhavan
- Arunachal Raj Bhavan
- Obituary
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