Dhiraj Kumar Nath (9 January 1945 – 5 January 2018) was a Bangladeshi civil servant. He was named as an advisor of the interim

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of Bangladesh in October 2006.(10 December 2009
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''), Retrieved 11 November 2010 (editorial from Nath, starts with a biographical paragraph noting he was a leader in Health and Human Planning in the early 2000s, and a special advisor in 2006)

Education and career

Nath was born in the Rafiqpur village of Begumganj thana of

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. His father was the late Karuna Kanta Nath and mother the late Shabitri Sundari Debi. He received a post-graduate degree from

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. He joined the East Pakistan Civil Service in 1969. He took part in the

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in 1971. After the independence of Bangladesh he worked as the Mohokuma Proshashak (Sub-Divisional Officer) in Gazipur in 1978. He was the Additional Secretary of the Health and Family Welfare Ministry and Secretary of Rural Development, and Cooperative Division, from which he retired in 2003. He was nominated as one of the advisers of the caretaker government along with nine other members. Nath also wrote some books, of which the famous ones are ''Pother Dudharay'' and ''Shompritir Jonopoday''.

References

1945 births 2018 deaths Bangladeshi civil servants Bangladeshi Hindus University of Dhaka alumni Advisers of caretaker governments of Bangladesh People from Begumganj Upazila Ministry of Liberation War Affairs (Bangladesh) {{Bangladesh-bio-stub