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The first Finance Secretary of independent India
Konnanath Ramakrishna Menon
MBE
CIE , known widely as K.R.K. Menon , was the first
Finance Secretary of independent
India , charged with oversight of
Indian Revenue . He further held the offices of
Chairman of the Central Board of Revenue ,
[1]
Chairman of the Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI) ,
[2] and
Chairman of the Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation ,
[3] and served as a member of the
Planning Commission (India) ,
[4]
Administrative Reforms Commission ,
[5] and as a Governor on the Board of the
Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) .
[6]
During the
British Raj he was created a
Member of the British Empire in 1938 and a
Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1946.
[7]
He was cousin to
Konnanath Balakrishna Menon and father to
Bhaskar Menon .
[8]
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