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{{short description|Indian civil service officer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2019}}
{{Infobox person
| name = R. Carlton Vivian Pidade Noronha
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1916|5|14}}
| birth_place = [[Hyderabad]], Hyderabad State, India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1982|11|23|1916|5|14}}
| death_place = [[Bhopal]], Madhya Pradesh, India
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| othername = RP
| occupation = Civil service officer, writer
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| known_for = Administrative reforms
| awards = 1975 [[Padma Bhushan]]
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'''Ronald Carlton Vivian Pidade Noronha''' (1916–1982), known as Ron to his friends and Noronha to his colleagues, was an Indian Civil Service officer, writer and the longest serving Chief Secretary of Madhya Pradesh in independent India.
He was the author of ''A Tale Told By An Idiot'', an autobiography. The [[Government of India]] awarded him the [[Padma Bhushan]], the third highest civilian award, in 1975.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{Cite web |url=http://www.dashboard-padmaawards.gov.in/ |title=Padma Awards |date=2018-05-17 |website=Padma Awards |publisher=Government of India |access-date=2018-05-17}}</ref>

==Biography==
[[File:Loyola College Chennai entrance.jpg|thumb|Loyola College, Madras]]
R. C. V. P. Noronha was born on 14 May 1916 at [[Hyderabad]] in the south Indian state of [[Telangana]]. The only son of an engineer-doctor couple, he did his pre-college at Inter College, Vishakhapatnam and secured a graduate degree with [[Honours degree|honours]] from [[Loyola College, Madras]] and moved to the [[London School of Economics]] which earned a BSc (honours) from the [[University of London]]. Subsequently, he joined [[Indian Civil Service (British India)|Indian Civil Service]], topping the qualifying examination.

He was the second longest serving chief secretary of Madhya Pradesh, having served as the chief secretary for two terms, November 1963 to August 1968 and September 1972 to May 1974 when he retired from service at the age of 58.<ref name="Chief Secretaries of Madhya Pradesh">{{Cite web |url=http://mpinfo.org/MPinfoStatic/English/whoiswho/cslist.asp |title=Chief Secretaries of Madhya Pradesh |date=2018-05-31 |website=Department Of Public Relations, Madhya Pradesh |access-date=2018-05-31}}</ref>

After retirement, Ron Noronha, lived as a farmer, in a one room house in a village called Sankal, 20 kilometers from Bhopal. He was affectionately known as Baba by the children and adults of the village, alike. He would also provide first aid for common ailments like diarrhea and fever and even ferried emergency patients to Bhopal sometimes. After his death, the village has been named after him as Noronha Sankal.

He published his autobiography in 1976 under the title, ''A Tale Told By An Idiot''.<ref name="A Tale Told By An Idiot">{{Cite book |title=A Tale Told By An Idiot |last=R. P. Noronha |publisher=South Asia Books |year=1976 |isbn=9780883869338}}</ref> He was married to Amy Alvares and the couple had two sons, Ashok and Terence, and two daughters, Gabrielle and Anjali. He died on 23 November 1982, at the age of 66, at [[Bhopal]] in [[Madhya Pradesh]].
== Awards and honors ==
The [[Government of India]] awarded him the [[Padma Bhushan]], the third highest civilian award, in 1975.<ref name="Padma Awards"/> [[RCVP Noronha Academy of Administration]], the principal civil service training institute of the [[Government of Madhya Pradesh]], is named after him.<ref name="RCVP Noronha Academy of Administration & Management">{{Cite web |url=http://www.mp.nic.in/mpacademy/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814125650/http://www.mp.nic.in/mpacademy/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-08-14 |title=RCVP Noronha Academy of Administration & Management |date=2007-08-14 |website=Government of Madhya Pradesh |access-date=2018-05-31}}</ref><ref name="आर.सी.व्ही.पी.नरोन्हा प्रशासन एवं प्रबंधकीय अकादमी">{{Cite web |url=http://www.academy.mp.gov.in/ |title=आर.सी.व्ही.पी.नरोन्हा प्रशासन एवं प्रबंधकीय अकादमी |last=Esmet |date=2018-05-31 |website=www.academy.mp.gov.in |access-date=2018-05-31}}</ref>

==See also==
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* [[Anthony de Sa (politician)]]
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{{Portal|India}}

==References==
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== Further reading ==
* {{Cite web |url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2001/08/09/stories/180944pd.htm |title=A shimmering gem in India's babudom |last=P. Devarajan |date=9 August 2001 |website=www.thehindubusinessline.com |access-date=2018-05-31}}

==External links==
* {{Cite web |url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/e3bd86f4-455e-40ea-bbc5-cc44aa9e784e |title=The Discovery Service |last=Archives |first=The National |date=2018-05-31 |website=discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk |language=en-GB |access-date=2018-05-31}}

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{{succession box | before = [[H. S. Kamath]]|title = Chief Secretary [[Government of Madhya Pradesh]] | years = 1963–1968 | after = [[M. P. Shrivastava]]}}
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{{succession box | before = [[R. P. Naik]]|title = Chief Secretary [[Government of Madhya Pradesh]] | years = 1972–1974 | after = [[M. S. Chaudhary]]}}
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{{PadmaBhushanAwardRecipients 1970–79}}
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[[Category:Indian Administrative Service officers]]
[[Category:1916 births]]
[[Category:1982 deaths]]
[[Category:Writers from Hyderabad, India]]
[[Category:Loyola College, Chennai alumni]]
[[Category:Alumni of the London School of Economics]]
[[Category:Alumni of the University of London]]
[[Category:Indian Civil Service (British India) officers]]

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