C._V._Ananda_Bose

C. V. Ananda Bose

C. V. Ananda Bose

22nd and current Governor of West Bengal

C. V. Ananda Bose is an Indian retired 1977-batch IAS officer, who has been serving as the Governor of West Bengal since 23 November 2022.[1]

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Early life & education

Ananda Bose was born on 2 January 1951 in Mannanam, Kottayam, India. He attended Kuriakose Elias College, Mannanam,[2] and St. Berchmans College, Changanassery.[3] He holds a Ph.D from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.[4]

Indian Administrative Service

Ananda Bose joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1977. He worked as District magistrate, and Principal Secretary and Additional Chief secretary in various ministries such as Education, Forest and Environment, Labour, and General Administration.

As the Administrator of the National Museum, Bose launched a 100-day programme which spelt out specific measures to revamp and revitalise the institution. Most of the improvements suggested were achieved in 60 days, such as opening the closed down galleries, modernising the display and lighting, launching outreach programmes to take the Museum to the community, arranging children's programme to ignite young minds to the greatness of India's national heritage, organising international exhibitions and launching the People's Museum movement, to mention a few.[5]

Bose is a Fellow of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, and has received the Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship.

Personal Life

Dr. Bose has 350 publications to his credit, including 70 books, consisting of novels, short stories and poems in Malayalam, Hindi, English and now in Bengali also.[6] [7]

Governor of West Bengal

On 17 November 2022, Bose was appointed as Governor of West Bengal by President Droupadi Murmu.[8]

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