Purna Chandra Hota (9 September 1938 – 27 December 2020) was an Indian bureaucrat and civil servant. He was married to Bijoylaxmi Hota, a yoga expert and author of several books on yogic therapy. He had three children, Reema Hota Singh, an Indian revenue Service Officer, Prasenjeet Hota, and Reela Hota, an

odissi ''Odissi'' (''ଓଡ଼ିଶୀ'') also referred to as ''Orissi'' in old literature, oldest surviving classical dance of India, is a major ancient Indian classical dance that originated in the Hindu temple, temples of Odisha – an eastern ...

dancer.

Education and career

The oldest son of Banchanidi Hota, an Excise Official, Hota was born and raised in the Indian state of

Odisha Odisha (), formerly Orissa (List of renamed places in India, the official name until 2011), is a States and union territories of India, state located in East India, Eastern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by ar ...

. He was educated in

Ravenshaw College Ravenshaw University, formerly known as Ravenshaw College, is a co-educational state university situated in Cuttack, Odisha on the eastern coast of India. Founded as Ravenshaw College in 1868, the institution became a university in 2006. The u ...

Cuttack Cuttack (, or officially Kataka in Odia language, Odia ), is the former capital, deputy capital and the 2nd largest city of the Indian state of Odisha. It is also the headquarters of the Cuttack district. The name of the city is an anglicised f ...

and at the

University of Allahabad The University of Allahabad is a Central university (India), Central University located in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. It was established on 23 September 1887 by an act of Parliament and is recognised as an Institute of National Importance (INI). ...

. Hota served as lecturer in the Post-Graduate Department of Political Science of

Utkal University Utkal University (UU) is a public university in Bhubaneswar, Khordha, Odisha, and is the oldest university in the state, and the 17th-oldest university in India. The university was established in 1943 and was operating from Ravenshaw College ...

. He competed in the

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(I.A.S.) Examination held by the UPSC and was among the first ten candidates in order of merit. Hota was allotted the Odisha Cadre of the Indian Administrative Service in 1962. Hota studied law in the South Campus Law College of the

University of Delhi The Delhi University (DU, ISO 15919, ISO: ), also and officially known as the University of Delhi, is a collegiate university, collegiate research university, research Central university (India), central university located in Delhi, India. It ...

while serving in the I.A.S. From 1966 to 1984, he worked for the

Government of Odisha The Government of Odisha and its Districts of Odisha, 30 districts consists of an executive branch, executive, led by the List of Governors of Odisha, Governor of Odisha, a judiciary, and a legislative branch. Like other states in India, the ...

in various departments. As the Additional Secretary of

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of the Government of India, he was appointed the Chairman of the Tripartite Committee appointed by Government of India, and empowered to plan a pension scheme for workers, which has been implemented since 1995. In May 2010, he was appointed by the Government of India as the Chairman of a Committee of Experts, to suggest measures for expeditious disposal of disciplinary and vigilance inquiries. In August 2012, he was honorarily named

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by Ravenshaw University in recognition of "Outstanding Contribution to Public Service". In July 2013, he was appointed by the Government of

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to recommend measures for reform of the practices and procedures of the Karnataka Public Service Commission. In 2019, Hota wrote a book on law titled ''Nuggets of Wisdom- Some path breaking judgements of the Supreme Court'', published by

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. Chandra Hota died on 27 December 2020 at the age of 82.

International delegations

* 1982: Member of a Delegation to the World Bank, Washington DC for negotiating a loan for a major river valley project in Odisha * 1991: Led the Indian delegation to the International Labor Conference at Geneva * 1991: Member of the Indian delegation to the Asian Productivity Council at Bangkok * 1992: Led the Indian Delegation to the International Social Security Association at Acapulco, Mexico * 1995: Member of the Indian delegation to the Eastern Regional Organization of Public administration (EROPA) at Tokyo * 1995: Member of the Indian delegation to the International Anti-Corruption Conference at Beijing * 2001: Led a delegation of Union Public Service Commission for Study of Modalities of Recruitment to the Public Service in Singapore and Australia

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