Mumbai's Churchgate railway station to be renamed after India's first RBI Governor

Mumbai's Churchgate railway station to be renamed after India's first RBI Governor

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Category : State Published on: February 24 2023

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The Churchgate railway station in Mumbai will soon be called as 'Chintamanrao Deshmukh station', named after the first governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) CD Deshmukh.
Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh, also known as C D Deshmukh, was the first Indian Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
He joined RBI in 1939 and served as its Secretary to the Board, Deputy Governor and the Governor.
In August 1943, he was appointed as Governor of the RBI and served in that position till 1949.
Deshmukh was one of five members of the Planning Commission when it was constituted in 1950 by a cabinet resolution.
He was knighted by the British government in 1944 and was awarded India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1959.

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