Kalu Lal Shrimali (December 1909 – 5 January 2000) was the Union Education Minister for the Government of

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and also a distinguished parliamentarian and an educationist. He was born in December 1909 at

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and had his education at

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and

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, New York. He served as Minister of Education in the Union Council of Ministers from May 1955 to August 1963. Shrimali represented the State of

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from April 1952 to April 1956 and from April 1956 to April 1962. He was associated with several educational and various social welfare organizations. Shrimali was editor of "Jan Shikshan" a monthly educational magazine and had several publications to his credit. He was one of the founders of the famous Vidya Bhawan School,

(

), which was established in Baden Powell’s Boy Scout Movement. He was awarded

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in 1976 for his contribution to education. He died on 5 January 2000 at the age of 90 in Udaipur, Rajasthan.

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