Gulzari Lal Nanda



Gulzari Lal Nanda
Gulzari Lal Nanda

Birth : 4 July 1898                                     Death 15 January 1998






Conceived on July 4, 1898, in Sialkot (Punjab), Shri Gulzarilal Nanda was taught at Lahore, Agra and Allahabad. He filled in as an exploration researcher on work issues at the University of Allahabad (1920-1921) and became Professor of Economics at the National College (Bombay) in 1921. He joined the Non-Cooperation Movement that year. In 1922, he become Secretary of the Ahmedabad Textile Labor Association in which he worked until 1946. He was detained for Satyagraha in 1932, and again from 1942 to 44. 

Shri Nanda is choused for the Bombay Legislative Assembly in 1937 and was Parliamentary Secretary (Labor and Excise) to the Government of Bombay from 1937 to 1939. Afterward, as Labor Minister of the Bombay Government (1946-50), he effectively guided the Labor Disputes Bill in the State Assembly. He filled in as Trustee, Kasturba Memorial Trust; Secretary, Hindustan Mazdoor Sevak Sangh; and Chairman, Bombay Housing Board. He was additionally a Member of the National Planning Committee. He was to a great extent instrumental in sorting out the Indian National Trade Union Congress and later turned into its President. 

In 1947, he went to Geneva as a Government agent to the International Labor Conference. He chipped away at 'The Freedom of Association Committee' designated by the Conference and visited Sweden, France, Switzerland, Belgium and England to consider work and lodging conditions in those nations. 

Once in March 1950, he joined the Planning Commission as its Vice-Chairman. In September the next year, he was named Planning Minister in the Union Government. What's more, he was likewise given charge of the arrangement of Irrigation and Power. He was chosen for the House of the People from Bombay in the general appointment of 1952 and was re-delegated Minister for Planning Irrigation and Power. He was drove the Indian Delegation to the Plan Consultative Committee held at Singapore in 1955, and the International Labor Conference held at Geneva in 1959. 

Shri Nanda was chosen for the Lok Sabha in the 1957 general decisions, and was delegated Union Minister for Labor and Employment and Planning and, later, as Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission. He visited the Federal Republic of Germany Yugoslavia and Austria in 1959. 

He was reappointed to the Lok Sabha in the 1962 general decisions from Sabarkantha Constituency in Gujarat. He started the Congress Forum for Socialist Action in 1962. He was Union Minister for Labor and Employment in 1962 and 1963 and Minister for Home Affairs from 1963 to 1966. 

Following the passing of Pt. Nehru, he was a confirmed as Prime Minister of India on May 27, 1964. Again on January 11, 1966, he was confirmed as Prime Minister following the passing of Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri at Tashkent.