independence activist, civil service officer and writer
Pitambar Pant
d. 1973, born Mumbai, writer
Pitambar Pant was an Indian independence activist, civil service officer and writer, best known for his contributions for the establishment of the Central Statistics Office and for changing the Indian system of measurement to the metric system. He served as the secretary to Jawaharlal Nehru, the then prime minister of India and headed the Perspective Planning Division of the Planning Commission of India. He was also the author of a number of books on socialist economics. The Government of India awarded him the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award, in 1973.
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