Rameshwar Thakur

Rameshwar Thakur (28 July 1925 – 15 January 2015) was a politician and former union minister of India, he also served as the Governor of Madhya Pradesh from 2009 to 2011, Governor of Odisha from 2004 to 2006, Governor of Andhra Pradesh from 2006 to 2007 and Governor of Karnataka from 2007 to 2009. He was a Chartered Accountant. He was also President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India from 1966 to 1967.

Rameshwar Thakur
15th Governor of Madhya Pradesh
In office 30 June 2009 – 7 September 2011
Chief Minister	Shivraj Singh Chauhan
Preceded by	Balram Jakhar
Succeeded by	Ram Naresh Yadav
10th Governor of Karnataka
In office 21 August 2007 – 24 June 2009
Chief Minister	H. D. Kumaraswamy B. S. Yediyurappa
Preceded by	T. N. Chaturvedi
Succeeded by	Hansraj Bhardwaj
Governor of Andhra Pradesh
(Additional Charge)
In office 29 January 2006 – 22 August 2007
Chief Minister	Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy
Preceded by	Sushil Kumar Shinde
Succeeded by	Narayan Dutt Tiwari
22nd Governor of Odisha
In office 18 November 2004 – 21 August 2007
Chief Minister	Naveen Patnaik
Preceded by	M. M. Rajendran
Succeeded by	Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare
Union Minister of India
President of the Bharat Scouts and Guides
In office 1998–2001
President of the ICAI
In office 1966–1967
Preceded by	CA. M.P. Chitale
Succeeded by	CA. V.B. Haribhakti
Personal details
Born	(1925-07-28)28 July 1925 Thakurgangti, Bihar-Orissa, British India (now in Jharkhand, India)
Died	15 January 2015(2015-01-15) (aged 89) Delhi, India
Political party	Indian National Congress
Spouse	Narmada Thakur
Children	4

Biography

Thakur was born in the village of Thakur Gangti, Godda District, Jharkhand. He had participated in Quit India movement. He served as President of the Bharat Scouts and Guides from November 1998 to November 2001, and again after November 2004. Thakur was sworn in as the 15th Governor of Karnataka on August 21, 2007.^[1]

He was married to Narmada Thakur and they had two sons and two daughters: Mridula, Sangeeta, Sushil and Anil Thakur.

He was transferred to Governor Madhya Pradesh for the remainder of his gubernatorial term on June 24, 2009. Thakur took over from Balram Jakhar on the end of the latter's term on June 30. He left office on September 7, 2011.^[2]

Thakur inaugurating OCIT 2006 with Saraju Mohanty as the Program Chair.

He was the governor of Odisha during the year 2004 to 2007. He was promoter of Information Technology (IT). He was supportive of one of the earliest conferences on IT called OITS International Conference on Information Technology (OCIT), which was formerly known as ICIT or CIT.^[3] OCIT 2023 was held at NIT Raipur during December 2023.

Rameswar died on 15 January 2015 at Delhi.^[4]

See also

• V Rajaraman