D. N. Ghosh

Dhruba Narayan Ghosh was an Indian career bureaucrat and civil servant who served as the twelfth Chairman of State Bank of India. He was also the founder and first chairman of the ICRA Limited.

Life

He was born on 6 August 1928 in Cooch Behar, India.

He died on 07 November 2023 in Kolkata, India.

Most of the details about his early life are known from his autobiography No Regrets published by Rupa Publications on 1 August 2015.

Education

He spent his formative years in Presidency College, Calcutta, where he completed his BA and MA degrees in economics.

He holds a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Calcutta.

Career

Early career

He joined the Indian Audit and Accounts Service in 1952 and worked in a number of roles. He played a key role in the nationalization of Indian banks.

Quote A large chunk of his civil service years were spent in the banking division (later department) of the Union finance ministry as a key official who helped draft laws that led up to bank nationalisation and thereafter to a supervisory structure for public sector banks. — Business Standard

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