Krishna Chandra Pant was a Member of Parliament for 26 years and was the prime minister's interlocutor on Kashmir. He was a cabinet minister in the Government of India and held several constitutional positions over a period of 37 years. Pant had held the positions of Minister for Defence, Minister of state for Home Affairs, Minister of Steel and Heavy Engineering, Finance, Atomic Energy and Science and Technology. He was the first chairman of the Advisory Board on Energy, chairman of the 10th Finance Commission and the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission of India, the economic planning body of India; his Vision 2020 document was published as India's Development Scenario, Next Decade and Beyond.
K. C. Pant, Indian politician, 18th Indian Minister of Defence (born 1931)
On November 15, in the year 2012, K. C. Pant, Indian politician, 18th Indian Minister of Defence (born 1931). This event is recorded as a Notable Deaths event in the history of November 15, a notable event in this corner of history.
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- This event took place on November 15, 2012 (AD era).
- It is categorised as a Notable Deaths event in recorded history.
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