Indian politician

Narendra *ar Prasadrao Salve (18 March 1921 – 1 April 2012) was a veteran Indian politician from Indian National Congress, parliamentarian and a cricket administrator. Former Union minister and president of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) (1982–1985), he was instrumental in bringing the Cricket World Cup outside England and to the Indian subcontinent in 1987. Salve was a staunch advocate for the separate statehood of Vidarbha.

Contents

• 1 Early life and education
• 2 Career
• 3 Personal life
• 4 See also
• 5 References

Early life and education

N. K. P. Salve was born in Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh, on 18 March 1921 to Marathi Christians parents Prasadrao Keshavrao Salve and Cornelia Karuna Jadhav. His father was a lawyer and freedom fighter hailed from Ujjain and his Marathi mother was a renowned scholar and freedom fighter. Narendra's grand-father Keshavrao Salve.

Salve received B.Com. and F.C.A. degrees. He was a Chartered Accountant and was also an avid cricketer at college.

Career

A chartered accountant by profession, he played club cricket in Nagpur in his early years, and remained an umpire in the following years. He remained President of Vidarbha Cricket *ociation (VCA) (1972–1980), and in 1982 the president of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), a post he held till 1985 as the former President of India Pranab Mukherjee forwarded his name for that post. It was during his tenure that India won the 1983 Cricket World Cup, plus he managed to get joint hosting right for the 1987 Cricket World Cup for India and Pakistan. In 1983, he also became the first elected chairman of the Asian Cricket Council. In recognition to services to Cricket, the BCCI started the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy in 1995, named after him.

He remained a member of the Lower House, Lok Sabha (1967–1977) from Betul (Lok Sabha cons*uency) and that of Upper House of Indian Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra state for four consecutive terms, from 1978 to 2002. He was the chairman of the Privileges Committee of the Lok Sabha from 1975 to 1977.

He left his accountancy practice when he first appointed a Union cabinet minister in 1982, under Indira Gandhi. After that he again remained Union Minister of State under two more Prime Ministers, Rajiv Gandhi and followed by P. V. Narasimha Rao, working Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Steel and Mines, Parliamentary Affairs and Power. He also remained chairman of the 9th Finance Commission of India (1984–89).

Subsequently, he shifted to Nagpur, where in 2003, along with former central cabinet minister Vasant Sathe, he formed the Vidarbha Rajya Nirman Congress to push the demand for a separate Vidarbha state.

He died at a Delhi private hospital on 1 April 2012, following a brief illness. Thereafter his body was flown into his native Nagpur, where he was given a state funeral, before being buried at a local Christian cemetery, the following day.

Personal life

His son, lawyer Harish Salve served as the Solicitor General of India from 1999 to 2002, while his daughter is Arundhati. His wife died a few years prior to him.

See also

• NKP Salve Challenger Trophy

References

New and
Renewwable
EnergyCoalOther

• NLC India Limited
• Singareni Collieries Company
• Coal Mines Provident Fund Organisation
• Coal controller organisation
• Commissioner of payments

Legislations

• The Coking Coal Mines (Emergency Provisions) Ordinance
• Coking Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1972
• Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1973
• Colliery Control Order, 2000
• Coal Mines (Conservation & Development) Act, 1974 and Coal Mines (Conservation & Development) Rules, 1975
• The Collection of Statistics Act, 1953 and the Collection of Statistics (Central) Rules, 1959
• Coal Bearing Areas (Acquisition & Development) Act, 1957
• Coal Mines Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1948
• Coal Mines Pension Scheme, 1998
• Mines and Minerals (Regulation & Development) Act, 1957

Secretaries

• Susheel *ar
• Inder Jit Singh
• Sumanta Chaudhuri
• Dr. Anil *ar Jain (in*bent)

Ministers

• Biju Patnaik
• Vasant Sathe
• P. A. Sangma (MoS, IC)
• Ajit *ar Panja (MoS, IC)
• Jagdish Tytler (MoS, IC)
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee
• S. R. Bommai
• Kanti Singh
• Inder *ar Gujral
• Inder *ar Gujral
• Dilip Ray (MoS, IC)
• N. T. Shanmugam (MoS, IC)
• Syed Shahnawaz Hussain (MoS, IC)
• Ram Vilas Paswan
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee
• Lal Krishna Advani
• Uma Bharati
• Kariya Munda
• Mamata Banerjee
• Shibu Soren
• Manmohan Singh
• Shibu Soren
• Manmohan Singh
• Shibu Soren
• Manmohan Singh
• Shriprakash Jaiswal (MoS, IC)
• Piyush Goyal (MoS, IC)
• Pralhad Joshi (in*bent)

Petroleum and
Natural G*chemes

• Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

Projects

• Urja Ganga Gas Pipeline Project
• National Infrastructure Pipeline

PSUsOther

• Strategic Petroleum Reserve (India)

Secretaries

• K D Tripathi
• M M Kutty (in*bent)

Ministers

• Humayun Kabir
• O. V. Alagesan (MoS, IC)
• Asoka Mehta
• Kotha Raghuramaiah (MoS, IC)
• Triguna Sen
• Dajisaheb Chavan (MoS, IC)
• Prakash Chandra Sethi
• H. R. Gokhale
• Devakanta Barua
• Keshav Dev Malviya
• Morarji Desai
• H. N. Bahuguna
• Ravindra Varma
• T. A. Pai
• Aravinda Bala Pazhanoor
• Charan Singh
• S. N. Kacker
• Indira Gandhi
• Prakash Chandra Sethi
• Virendra Patil
• Prakash Chandra Sethi
• P Shiv Shankar
• Naval K Sharma (MoS, IC)
• Chandrashekhar Singh (MoS, IC)
• N. D. Tiwari
• Brahm Dutt (MoS, IC)
• V. P. Singh
• M. S. Gurupadaswamy
• Chandra Shekhar
• Satya Prakash Malaviya
• B. Shankaranand
• Satish Sharma (MoS, IC)
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee
• H. D. Deve Gowda
• I. K. Gujral
• Janeshwar Mishra
• Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy
• Ram Naik
• Mani Shankar Aiyar
• Murli Deora
• S. Jaipal Reddy
• M. Veerappa Moily
• Dharmendra Pradhan (MoS, IC till 03 September 2017) (in*bent)

Minister of State

• Chandrashekhar Singh (1985 - 1986)
• Dinsha Patel (2006-2009)
• Jitin Prasada (May 2009 - Jan 2011)
• R. P. N. Singh (19 Jan 2011 – 28 Oct 2012)
• Panabaka Lakshmi (28 Oct 2012 – 17 May 2014)

Department of
Atomic EnergyUniversities

• Homi Bhabha National Ins*ute
• Tata Ins*ute of Fundamental Research

Aided Sector

• National Ins*ute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar
• National Board for Higher Mathematics
• Atomic Energy Education Society
• Tata Memorial Centre
• Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences
• Saha Ins*ute of Nuclear Physics
• Ins*ute of Physics
• Harish-Chandra Research Ins*ute
• Ins*ute of Mathematical Sciences
• Ins*ute for Plasma Research

Secretaries

• Dr. K.N.Vyas (in*bent)

Ministers of State

• Jitendra Singh (in*bent)

Related

• India–United States Civil Nuclear Agreement
• Opposition to the Indo-US civilian agreement in India
• India's three-stage nuclear power programme
• Nuclear Liability Act