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{{Short description|Indian career bureaucrat and civil servant}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Dhruba Narayan Ghosh
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| birth_date = 6 August 1928
| birth_place = [[Cooch Behar]]
| death_date = 7 November 2023
| death_place = [[Kolkata]], [[India]]
| office = 12th [[Chairman of State Bank of India]]
| predecessor = [[Vishwanath N. Nadkarni]]
| successor = Atal V.
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'''Dhruba Narayan Ghosh''' was an Indian career bureaucrat and civil servant who served as the twelfth [[Chairman of State Bank of India]].<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|last=Hazari|first=Hemindra|date=3 Feb 2002|title=A Question of Leadership|url=https://hemindrahazari.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SBI-BUY-3-Feb-2000.pdf|url-status=live|website=hemindrahazari(.)com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414044425/https://hemindrahazari.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SBI-BUY-3-Feb-2000.pdf |archive-date=14 April 2021 }}</ref><ref name="auto3">{{Cite web|url=https://edifying.in/state-bank-of-india-story-of-the-largest-bank-in-india/|title="State Bank of India- Story of the Largest Bank in India"|date=27 May 2021|access-date=6 June 2021|archive-date=2 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602215009/https://edifying.in/state-bank-of-india-story-of-the-largest-bank-in-india/|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was also the founder and first chairman of the [[ICRA Limited]].<ref name="auto2">{{Cite web|url=https://rupapublications.co.in/authors/d-n-ghosh/|title=D.N. Ghosh | Authors | Rupa Publications}}</ref>

== Life ==

He was born on 6 August 1928 in [[Cooch Behar]], [[India]].<ref>[https://www.epw.in/journal/2023/47/commentary/remarkable-life.html]</ref>

He died on 07 November 2023 in [[Kolkata]], [[India]].<ref>[https://www.epw.in/journal/2023/47/commentary/remarkable-life.html]</ref>

Most of the details about his early life are known from his autobiography ''No Regrets'' published by [[Rupa Publications]] on 1 August 2015.<ref name="auto2"/> The book was released by [[Arundhati Bhattacharya]], the then [[Chairman of State Bank of India]] and [[Deepak Parekh]], chairman of the [[Housing Development Finance Corporation]] on 27 August 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bankingfrontiers.com/no-regrets-launched/|title='No Regrets' launched|date=27 August 2015}}</ref>

== Education ==

He spent his formative years in Presidency College, Calcutta, where he completed his BA and MA degrees in economics.<ref>[https://www.epw.in/journal/2023/47/commentary/remarkable-life.html]</ref>

He holds a Master's degree in Economics from the [[University of Calcutta]].<ref name="auto4">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebillionpress.org/person/dn-ghosh|title=DN Ghosh | The Billion Press|website=www.thebillionpress.org|date=11 October 2017 }}</ref>

== Career ==

=== Early career ===

He joined the [[Indian Audit and Accounts Service]] in 1952 and worked in a number of roles. He played a key role in the nationalization of Indian banks.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/from-civil-servant-to-corporate-warrior-115111201305_1.html|title=From civil servant to corporate warrior|first=Subir|last=Roy|date=12 November 2015|via=Business Standard}}</ref>

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|text= A large chunk of his civil service years were spent in the banking division (later department) of the Union finance ministry as a key official who helped draft laws that led up to bank nationalisation and thereafter to a supervisory structure for public sector banks.
|author= [[Business Standard]]<ref name="auto"/>
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=== Banking career ===

He served as the twelfth [[Chairman of State Bank of India]] from 13 May 1985 until 12 May 1989.<ref name="auto1"/><ref name="auto3"/>

After his retirement from the [[State Bank of India]] in 1989, he was succeeded by Atal V. as the [[Chairman of State Bank of India]].<ref name="auto1"/><ref name="auto3"/>

It was during his time at the [[State Bank of India]], that the drive towards computerization of branches was begun. The [[State Bank of India]] was also rated by the international rating agency the [[Standard and Poor's|S&P Global Ratings]] for the first time during his tenure.<ref name="auto"/>

=== Later career ===

After having retired from the [[State Bank of India]] in 1989, he held a number of executive posts in the private sector which included:<ref>{{Cite web|title=CHAIRMAN EMERITUS - Mr. D. N. Ghosh|url=https://www.icra.in/Home/ChairmanEmeritus|url-status=live|website=ICRA India|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225150206/https://www.icra.in/Home/ChairmanEmeritus |archive-date=25 February 2020 }}</ref>

* Member of Board of Directors of [[Philips]] company<ref name="auto4"/>
* Member of Board of Directors of [[Larsen & Toubro]] company<ref name="auto4"/>
* Chairman of the Board of Governors of the [[Indian Institute of Management Lucknow]]<ref name="auto4"/>
* Chairman of the board of Sundaram BNP Paribas Asset Management Company Limited<ref name="auto4"/>
* Chairman of the board of Gerdau Steel India Limited<ref name="auto4"/>
* Chairman of the [[Management Development Institute]], [[Gurgaon]]<ref name="auto2"/>
* Chairman and Director of The Peerless General Finance and Investment Company Limited<ref name="auto4"/>
* Managing Director of Damodar Cement and Slag Limited<ref name="auto4"/>
* Independent Non-Executive Director of Birla Corporation Limited<ref name="auto4"/>
* Independent Director of [[Housing Development Finance Corporation]].<ref name="auto4"/>
* Director of Tata Global Beverages Limited.<ref name="auto4"/>

He has also served as the president of the Society for the Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives.<ref name="auto2"/>

In 1991, he became the Managing Trustee of the Sameeksha Trust, which is the publisher of [[Economic and Political Weekly]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thekashmirwalla.com/2015/09/no-regrets-only-looking-back/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314212523/http://thekashmirwalla.com/2015/09/no-regrets-only-looking-back/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=14 March 2016|title=No regrets, only looking back|date=13 September 2015}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==

* [https://www.icra.in/Home/ChairmanEmeritus Official Website]
* [https://hemindrahazari.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SBI-BUY-3-Feb-2000.pdf SBI chairmen]
* [https://edifying.in/state-bank-of-india-story-of-the-largest-bank-in-india/ SBI history] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602215009/https://edifying.in/state-bank-of-india-story-of-the-largest-bank-in-india/ |date=2 June 2021 }}

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