Dhiraj Kumar Nath

Dhiraj Kumar Nath (Bangla:ধীরাজ কুমার নাথ) is a Bangladeshi diplomat. He was named as an advisor of the interim caretaker government of Bangladesh in November 2006.^[1][2]

Dhiraj Kumar Nath was born in the Rafiqpur village of Begumganj thana of Noakhali district. His father is the late Karuna Kanta Nath and mother the late Shabitri Sundari Debi.

He passed his entrance from Chadambini Modonmohan High School in 1960. He received his post-graduate degree in Finance from Dhaka University in 1966. He started his professional career as a professor at Noakhali Commercial College. He joined the East Pakistan Civil Service in 1969. He took part in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. After the independence of Bangladesh he worked as the Mohokuma Proshashak in Gazipur in 1978. He was the additional secretary of the Health and Family Planning Ministry and secretary of Rural Development, which he retired in 2003.

After the take-over of the interim government from the BNP-led four-party alliance he was nominated as one of the advisers of the caretaker government along with nine other members.^[1]

Driraj Kumar Nath also wrote some books, of which the famous ones are Pother Dudharay and Shompritir Jonopoday

References

1. ^ ^{a b} (1 November 2006) 10 advisers sworn in, The Daily Star (Bangladesh)), Retrieved November 11, 2010
2. ^ (10 December 2009) La santé, oubliée de Copenhague, Courrier International ((French), translated from The Daily Star (Bangladesh)), Retrieved November 11, 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)

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