Daying Ering

Daying Ering (11 December 1929 – 21 June 1970) was an Indian politician from Arunachal Pradesh. He was the chairman of the Ering Commission which heavily influenced the country's panchayati raj system. He is often considered as the founding father of modern day Arunachal.

He was a Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs in First Indira Gandhi ministry from 15 February 1966 to 13 March 1967. He again served as Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Community Development and Cooperation in Second Indira Gandhi ministry from 18 March 1967 to 21 June 1970.

Biography

Ering was born in an Adi family in Runne village near Pasighat in 1929. He started his career in the Indian Frontier Administrative Service. Later, in 1963, he was nominated as a Member of the Lok Sabha from NEFA by the President of India. He was later appointed as the Parliament Secretary and a Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.

In 1964, he chaired the Ering Commission, an investigative body looking into governmental decentralization. The Commission's report, in 1965, recommended a four-tier system of local government, and heavily influenced the adoption of the Panchayati Raj system.

Ering died in Shillong, in 1970. At this time he was Deputy Minister for Agriculture. The Daying Ering Memorial Wild Life Sanctuary in the East Siang district is named after him. Other places and institutions and places named after him include the Daying Ering College of Teachers' Education, Daying Ering Memorial Middle School, Daying Ering Memorial Higher Secondary School Pasighat, Daying Ering Wildlife Foundation Eco-Development Society and Daying Ering Colony. After his death, C. C. Gohain was nominated as a Member of the Lok Sabha from NEFA by the President of India.