Daying Ering

Daying Ering
Chairman, Ering Commission
In office
1964–1967
President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Personal details
Born (1929-12-11)December 11, 1929
Roing, East Siang district, NEFA, British India
Died June 21, 1970(1970-06-21) (aged 39)
Shillong, India
Nationality Indian
Political party NEFA Sangam
Spouse(s) Odam Ering
Children Ninong Ering
[1]

Daying Ering was an Indian politician from Arunachal Pradesh.[2][3] He was the chairman of the Ering Commission which heavily influenced the country's panchayati raj system.

Biography

Ering was born in an Adi family in the Roing village near Pasighat, in 1929. He started his career in the Indian Frontier Administrative Service. Later, in 1963, he was nominated as a Member of the Lok Sabha from NEFA by the President of India. He was later appointed as the Parliament Secretary and a Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.[4]

In 1964, he chaired the Ering Commission, an investigative body looking into governmental decentralization.[5] The Commission's report, in 1965, recommended a four-tier system of local government, and heavily influenced the adoption of the Panchayati Raj system.[6][7]

Ering died in Shillong, in 1970. The Daying Ering Memorial Wild Life Sanctuary in the East Siang district is named after him.[8] Other places and institutions and places named after him include the Daying Ering College of Teachers' Education, Daying Ering Memorial Middle School, Daying Ering Wildlife Foundation Eco-Development Society and Daying Ering Colony.

References

  1. ↑ "Former Union Deputy Minister - Late Daying Ering". Government of Arunachal Pradesh. Retrieved 2014-09-09.
  2. ↑ Nari Rustomji (1983). Imperilled frontiers: India's north-eastern borderlands. Oxford. p. 125.
  3. ↑ Rajani Kanta Patir (1999). Dawn in the East: An Autobiography. Vitastā. p. 63. ISBN 978-81-86588-04-8.
  4. ↑ "Obituary reference". Proceedings of the Second Session of the Provisional Meghalaya Legislative Assembly. 1970-09-21.
  5. ↑ Hamlet Bareh (2001). Encyclopaedia of North-East India. Mittal Publications. p. 78. ISBN 978-81-7099-788-7.
  6. ↑ Joram Begi (2007). Education in Arunachal Pradesh Since 1947: Constraints, Opportunities, Initiatives and Needs. Mittal Publications. pp. 16–17. ISBN 978-81-8324-211-0.
  7. ↑ Pratap Chandra Swain (1 January 2008). Panchayati Raj: The Grassroots Dynamics in Arunachal Pradesh. APH Publishing. p. 48. ISBN 978-81-313-0379-5.
  8. ↑ Pullock Dutta (2013-06-13). "Deer roam free in once poachers' den". The Telegraph.
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