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Veteran diplomat and administrator Braj Kumar Nehru died at Kasauli in Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday. He was 92.
His funeral will take place at Nigam Bodh Ghat, New Delhi, at 4.30 pm on Thursday.
Nehru had served as the Indian ambassador to the United States and high commissioner to Britain. He also served as the governor of Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur, Tripura, Jammu and Kashmir and Gujarat.
Nehru, who joined the Indian Civil Service in 1934, held various posts in the Punjab province and in the ministry of finance after Independence.
Born at Allahabad on September 4, 1909, Nehru obtained a B A degree from the Allahabad University, a B Sc degree from Balliol College, Oxford and a B Sc in economics from the London School of Economics.
"Nehru was a distinguished civil servant, an able administrator and diplomat who served the nation in various important assignments," President K R Narayanan said in a condolence message.
"He played a significant role in economic policy making and administration as well as in high level diplomacy. With his brilliant mind and sterling qualities of independence and integrity, Nehru nurtured a tradition of good governance in new India. He was at once a fine representative of Indian culture and a modern person with liberal ideas," the president said.
"I had the opportunity of knowing him closely in the Indian Foreign Service and I have admired his many splendoured personality, deep erudition, honesty and simplicity. His death marks the passing of a spacious era of Indian administration of which he was an outstanding exemplar," Narayanan said.
Indo-Asian News Service
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