Nilamani Routray

Nilamani Routray (24 May 1920 – 4 October 2004) was an Indian politician and the Chief Minister of Odisha from 1977 to 1980. He served as the Health and Family Welfare Minister and then Forest and Environment Minister in the Union Government led by V.P. Singh. He died on 4 October 2004.

Political career Nilamani Routray was a founder of the Odisha unit of All India Students Federation. He was the president of the Odisha state unit of the Indian National Congress from 1967 to 1970. Later he joined the Utkal Congress and became its president. Subsequent merger of Utkal Congress with Bharatiya Lok Dal, he became the president of its state unit of the merged entity. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1989.

Works His autobiography Smruti O Anubhuti (1986) won the Odisha Sahitya Akademi Award in 1988.