Governor of Andhra Pradesh
What was the position of Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi from Oct 1953 to Aug 1957?
Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi Sir Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi KCSI , CIE , OBE , ICS ( 2 July 1893 – 15 March 1980 ) was an Indian administrator and civil servant who served as the first Indian governor of the state of Punjab ( then East Punjab ) after Independence in 1947 . He subsequently served as the first Governor of Andhra Pradesh from its creation in 1953 until 1957 . Life and early career . Trivedi was born and raised in Kapadvanj in Kaira ( now Kheda ) District , then in the Bombay Presidency of British India and now in Gujarat . After completing his studies at Bombay University and at St Johns College , Oxford , he successfully sat the Indian Civil Service exams in 1916 and was appointed to the service the following October , returning to India in December 1917 . He first served in the Central Provinces as an assistant commissioner ( officiating deputy commissioner from January 1924 ) , and as the provincial director of industries and registrar of cooperative societies from November 1926 ; until then , he had served in the position in an officiating role from June 1925 . In March 1927 , Trivedi was confirmed as a deputy commissioner , and was posted to the Home Department of the Government of India as a deputy secretary in May 1932 . He was advanced to the rank of officiating joint secretary in April 1934 and in an officiating role , was appointed the chief secretary of the Central Provinces in October 1937 . During the Second World War , Trivedi was promoted to additional secretary ( war ) with the central government in March 1942 , and was promoted to full secretary that July . Following the end of the war , and with the end of the British Raj imminent , Trivedi was appointed as the first Indian and last British-appointed Governor of Odisha in late 1945 . He formally succeeded to the governorship in April 1946 , serving until 14 August 1947 , the day before Indias independence from Britain . On the same day , he was appointed the first Indian governor of the new Indian province of East Punjab ( part of which is now Haryana ) . After Independence and later life . In the wake of Partition , with Lahore , the former provincial capital of the undivided Punjab , now in Pakistan , Trivedi was immediately beset with numerous challenges upon assuming the governorship of East Punjab . His ministers were forced to work without offices , clerical staff or communication networks ; with all telephone and telegraph lines only routed through Lahore , direct contact could not be made with Delhi . The limited infrastructure soon complicated the governments response to the communal massacres which raged across the region during the autumn of 1947 . In addition , Trivedi faced severe difficulties in supporting the massive influx of Hindu and Sikh refugees flooding into East Punjab from Pakistan . Trivedi was the first Governor of the renamed state of Punjab from 1950 to 1953 , The First Governor of Andhra Pradesh from 1 October 1953 till 1 August 1957 . He also was a member of The Planning Commission of India from 28 October 1957 till 1 December 1963 ; and was the deputy Chairperson of the Planning Commission of India from 22 September 1963 till 2 December 1963 . who served as the President of the Bharat Scouts and Guides from February 1967 to October 1973 . After a long , happy and meaningful life , Trivedi retired and spent the rest of his life in his hometown , where he died on 15 March 1980 , aged 86 . Personal life . He married Lady Kusum Chunilal Trivedi ( also from Kapadwanj ) . She was awarded a gold Kaisar-i-Hind Medal in the final imperial honours list issued on 14 August 1947 . Honours . He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) in the 1931 New Year Honours list , a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire ( CIE ) in the 1935 Birthday Honours list and as a Companion of the Order of the Star of India ( CSI ) in the 1941 Birthday Honours list . He was knighted in the 1945 Birthday Honours list , and was invested with his knighthood by the Viceroy , Lord Wavell at Viceroys House ( now Rashtrapati Bhavan ) in New Delhi on 18 August of that year . Later the same year , on 21 December 1945 , he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India ( KCSI ) . He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1956 . External links . - http://www.bsgindia.org/