Who was the first Indian Governor of the Reserve Bank of India?a)C. D...
CD Deshmukh was the first Indian Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
Sir Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh, CIE, ICS (14 January 1896 - 2 October 1982) was an Indian civil servant and the first Indian to be appointed the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India in 1943 by the British Raj authorities.
He subsequently served as the Finance Minister in the Union Cabinet (1950-1956).
It was during this time that he also became a founding member of the Governing Body of NCAER, the National Council of Applied Economic Research in New Delhi, India's first independent economic policy institute established in 1956 at the behest of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
After their resignation from the Union Cabinet, he worked as Chairman of UGC (1956-1961).
He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi (1962-67).
He was also President of the Indian Statistical Institute from 1945 to 1964, Honorary Chairman of the National Book Trust (1957-60).
He founded India International Center in 1959 and served as Lifetime President of it.
He was also chairman of the Indian Institute of Public Administration.