Keshav Dev Malviya

Keshav Dev Malviya
Keshav Dev Malviya
	Official Lok Sabha portrait
Union Minister of Petroleum
	In office; 21 December 1975 – 24 March 1977
Prime Minister	Indira Gandhi
Preceded by	Self
Succeeded by	Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna
Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers
	In office; 22 September 1976 – 24 March 1977
Prime Minister	Indira Gandhi
Preceded by	Prakash Chandra Sethi
Succeeded by	Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna
Union Minister of Petroleum and Chemicals
	In office; 10 October 1974 – 21 December 1975
Prime Minister	Indira Gandhi
Preceded by	D. K. Barooah
Succeeded by	Self (Petroleum); Prakash Chandra Sethi (Chemicals);
Union Minister of Steel and Mines
	In office; 11 January 1974 – 10 October 1974
Prime Minister	Indira Gandhi
Preceded by	T. A. Pai
Succeeded by	Chandrajit Yadav
Union Minister for Mines and Fuel; (Minister without cabinet rank)
	In office; 10 April 1962 – 26 June 1963
Prime Minister	Jawaharlal Nehru
Preceded by	Swaran Singh
Succeeded by	Swaran Singh
Union Minister for Mines and Oil; (Minister without cabinet rank)
	In office; 25 April 1957 – 10 April 1962
Prime Minister	Jawaharlal Nehru
Union Minister of Natural Resources; (Minister without cabinet rank)
	In office; 8 January 1955 – 17 April 1957
Prime Minister	Jawaharlal Nehru
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
	In office; 1971–1977
Preceded by	Narayan Swaroop Sharma
Succeeded by	Madhav Prasad Tripathi
Constituency	Domariyaganj
	In office; 1957–1967
Preceded by	Ram Garib
Succeeded by	Sheo Narain
Constituency	Basti
	In office; 1952–1957
Constituency	Gonda District (East) cum Basti District (West)
Personal details
Born	11 August 1904
Died	27 May 1981 (aged 76); New Delhi, India
Party	Indian National Congress

Keshav Dev Malaviya (11 August 1904 – 27 May 1981) was a leader of Indian National Congress and a union minister of India. He was a member of Lok Sabha from Domariyaganj, Uttar Pradesh. He received his degree in oil technology from HBTI Kanpur (now HBTU Kanpur). He served as a Minister of Petroleum in the 1970s in the Congress government. He is also known as the Father of the Indian Petroleum Industry.^[2]

Notes

Reed, Stanley (1950). The Indian And Pakistan Year Book And Who's Who 1950. Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd. p. 710.

In honour of K.D. Malaviya, Dibrugarh University, Assam has established a chair for research purpose in the department of Applied Geology, with collaboration with Oil India Ltd. Duliajan in 1991. This chair is dedicated for research in the field of oil and natural gas.

References

↑ "Obituary References" (PDF). Lok Sabha Debates. 18 (1): 3. 17 August 1981.
↑ "Steps are being taken to contain growth in demand for oil: Keshav Dev Malaviya". India Today. 16 April 2015. Retrieved 24 February 2018.

[obit-1] "Obituary References" (PDF). Lok Sabha Debates. 18 (1): 3. 17 August 1981.

[2] "Steps are being taken to contain growth in demand for oil: Keshav Dev Malaviya". India Today. 16 April 2015. Retrieved 24 February 2018.

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