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Headline: Anthony Lancelot Dias Souce: The Times (UK). 4 Nov. 2002 at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-468392,00.html Anthony Lancelot Dias, Indian civil servant, was born on March 13, 1910. He died in Bombay on September 22, 2002, aged 92. A member of the elite Indian Civil Service, which he served with distinction until his retirement in 1969, A. L. Dias is perhaps best known for the role he played as Governor of West Bengal in shepherding that state through the turmoil of left-wing extremism in the early 1970s. Though Dias originally hailed from the Portugese colonial enclave of Goa, he joined the “Bombay cadre” of the Indian Civil Service after studying at the London School of Economics. Known as a keen and able administrator, he held a number of important posts in the erstwhile Bombay presidency and Maharashtra, as the province came to be known eventually in independent India. After serving as Maharashtra Home Secretary, he moved to Delhi, where he worked as Food Secretary during the particularly turbulent food shortages of the late 1960s. He dealt with the 1966 Bihar drought, and his previous experience as chairman of the Bombay Port Trust enabled him to see India through its “ship to mouth” existence. He subsequently helped to set up the public sector Modern Bakeries ========================================= Don't forget - you saw it on GoaNet! ---------------------------------------------------------- What's On In Goa (WOIG): Nov 05 onwards: Wendell Rodrigues Festival. Altinho, Panjim Nov 05 Bobbin lace-making training, Don Bosco's Panjim (till 17.11) Nov 06 Richard Stallman, free software guru, speaks Farmagudi 4 pm Nov 06 Bob Fitts, gospel music singer, Navelim grounds, 6 pm Nov 06 Fr Britto's health courses, Pilar. Till 10.11. Later Chicalim. Nov 06 ArtHouse, Calangute: Chaitali's acrylics on canvas till 19.11 Nov 07 Creative science, for children, Goa Sc Centre (till 16.11) Nov 17 Goan Engineers and Assoc meet, at Pickering, Canada. Nov 20 Fr Agnelo's 75th death anniversary, Pilar Dec 01 Two day conference, Goa Agenda. IT For Society. (Ends 2.12) Every Sunday: Music therapy sessions at Moira, 5 pm. 278, N.Portugal ----------------------------------------------------------
