C. V. Ananda Bose Age, Caste, Wife, Family, Biography

Bio/Wiki
Profession(s)	Politician, Former Civil Servant
Famous for	Being appointed as the twenty-second governor of West Bengal
Physical Stats & More
Height (approx.)	5' 6" (167 cm)
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Black (semi-bald)
Politics
Political Party	Bharatiya Janata Party Note: He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2019.
Civil Service
Service	Indian Administrative Service (IAS)
Batch	1977
Cadre	Kerala
Retirement	20 September 2011
Major Designation(s)	• Assistant Collector, Kasargod (1 July 1979- 1 June 1980) • Sub Collector, Kasargod (1 June 1980- 1 October 1981) • Joint General Manager in Finance Department (1 October 1981- 1 September 1982) • Deputy Secretary in Planning Department (1 September 1982- 1 January 1984) • Deputy Secretary in Welfare Department (1 January 1984- 1 April 1985) • District Collector of Kollam (1 April 1985- 1 July 1987) • Managing Director (Industries) (1 July 1987- 1 January 1988) • Secretary in Revenue Department (1 January 1988- 1 July 1990) • Secretary to Chief Minister in General Administration Department (1 March 1991- 1 March 1995) • Secretary to Chief Minister in Home Department (1 July 1991- 1 March 1995) • Director of Housing & Urban Dev Department and Kerala State Nirmithi Kendra (1 March 1995- 1 March 1999) • Secretary of Kerala Labour Department (1 March 1999- 1 October 2001) • Chairman & Managing Director of Kerala State Transport Corporation (1 October 2001- 5 January 2002) • Secretary of Administrative Reforms and General Administration (1 August 2002- 26 September 2002) • Secretary of Parliamentary Affairs (26 September 2002- 29 November 2002) • Secretary of Youth Affairs (29 November 2002- 16 January 2003) • Secretary of SC/ST Welfare (16 January 2003- 16 July 2003) • Secretary of Administrative Reforms (6 March 2003- 16 July 2003) • Principal Secretary of Higher Education Department (16 July 2003- 14 June 2004) • Principal Secretary of Forest & Wild Life Department of Thiruvananthapuram (17 September 2004- 1 April 2005) • Joint Secretary of Atomic Energy (Mumbai City) (1 April 2005- 12 January 2008) • Additional Secretary of Agriculture & Cooperation (12 January 2008- 14 September 2009) • Managing Director of Agriculture & Cooperation, NAFED, New Delhi (14 September 2009- 21 September 2010) • Administrator (Additional Secretary Equivalent) of Culture Affairs of National Museum (22 September 2010- 14 January 2011) • Administrator (Secretary Equivalent) of Culture Affairs of National Museum (1 February 2011- 20 September 2011)
Awards, Honours, Achievements	• National Special Habitat Award instituted by the Government of India and HUDCO for outstanding contributions to Housing in India (1989) • Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship awarded by Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund, New Delhi, for Habitat Management (1994) • Finalist of the World Habitat Awards (1994) • UN-Habitat Global Best Practice for Building Centre Movement (1996) • Diwaliben Mohanlal Mehta Award Instituted by Diwaliben Mehta Charitable Trust (1996) • Dr. Pam Davar Award Instituted by Siri Ram Washeshran Devi Bhatia Memorial Charitable Trust (1997) • Gold Medal by Management Leadership Awards (TMA) (1997) • Akshaya Award for outstanding contributions in promoting traditional architecture (Vastu) and heritage (1998) • Overseas Literary Critics Awards (1999) • Cities Asia Urban Green Management Excellence Award (2001) • Bremen Partnership Award for efficient use of Natural Resources (2001) • UN-Habitat Global Best Practice for GNN (Sustainable Habitat Development) (2002) • Overseas Literary Critics Awards (2017) • International Book Fair Awards (Sustainable Habitat Development) (2017) • Lion Centennial Malia Jones Award (2018) • Swathi Pratibha Puraskar (2018) • Rajiv Gandhi National Award for Excellence in Management • UNCHS – Awards for Excellence – Good Practice selection for transparent governance • United Nations Global Best Practice • Singapore Government Award for Urban Green Management Excellence • First-ever Fellow of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie
Personal Life
Date of Birth	2 January 1951 (Tuesday)
Age (as of 2024)	73 Years
Birthplace	Mannanam, Kottayam, Kerala
Zodiac sign	Capricorn
Nationality	Indian
Hometown	Mannanam, Kottayam, Kerala
College/University	• Kuriakose Elias College, Mannanam • St. Berchmans College, Changanassery • Ph. D. in Housing and Environment
Educational Qualification(s)	• Graduation in English from Kuriakose Elias College, Mannanam [1]KE College • Post-graduation in English from St. Berchmans College, Changanassery [2]The Hindu • Ph. D. in Housing and Environment from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani [3]The New Indian Express
Ethnicity	Malayali [4]The Print
Controversy	Sexual Harassment Allegation On 1 May 2024, a woman staff attached to the Peace Room in the Raj Bhavan filed a complaint against Ananda Bose to the police post inside the Governor's House, accusing him of molesting her. Later, the governor denied access of the CCTV footage of that day to the police and said that he would allow the public to see the video footage of the concerned day and not Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee or her police. [5]NDTV
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Married
Family
Wife/Spouse	L S Lakshmi (manages her family-owned plantation)
Children	Son- A Vasudev Bose (pursuing an acting course at Stella Adler acting studio in Los Angeles as of 2022) Daughter- Nanditha Bose (died in 2017 due to cancer)
Parents	Father- P K Vasudevan Pillai (Nair) (freedom fighter) Mother- C Padmavathy Amma (former government official)
Siblings	Brother(s)- Er. C V Venugopalan Nair, Prof. C V Mohan Bose, Er. C V Sundara Bose, Adv. C V Sukumar Bose Sister(s)- Prof. Omana Kunjamma, C V Komala Bose, C V Indira Bose
Money Factor
Salary (approx.)	As the governor of West Bengal, C. V. Ananda Bose receives a monthly salary of Rs. 3, 50,000 (as of 2022).

Some Lesser Known Facts About C. V. Ananda Bose

• An average student, Ananda grew up participating in various co-curricular activities in his school days.

• While studying at college, Bose developed an interest in debating and participated in several inter-college debate and elocution competitions. He won around 100 debate competitions and bagged around 15 gold medals in debates.

• He was considered one of the best speakers at Kerala University.

• After pursuing a post-graduation degree in English, Ananda started working as an assistant professor in a central government college.

• Simultaneously, he started preparing for bank exams. Within a few months, he passed the banking exam and got placed as a probationary officer at the State Bank of India, Kolkata.

• He then decided to appear in the civil services examinations and became a 1977 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of the Kerala cadre.

• He then went for his training at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie, where he topped several debates.

• During his tenure as an IAS officer, Ananda initiated several innovative movements in the field of affordable housing, good governance, health care, science and technology, rural development, education, gender mainstreaming and communal harmony.

• He also founded several institutions like Nirmithi Kendra (Building Centre), District Tourism Council, and Dhanvantri fair price shops for medicine, which were replicated at the national and global levels.

• While serving as the sub-collector of Kasargod, Ananda introduced the Gramotsava program that helped in the time-bound development of rural areas. The Kerala government found the program to be effective and after officially evaluating it, decided to replicate the model in the entire rural sector of the state. The program was applied to around 200 panchayats in Kerala.

• After his superannuation (as an IAS officer) in 2011, Bose was appointed Chairman of the Govt. of India Public Sector Undertakings, Central Warehousing Corporation & Central Rail side Warehouse Company Ltd.

• He has also worked as the Chairman of the Habitat Alliance, in consultative status with UN Ecosoc.

• Ananda Bose was once a member of the UN-Habitat Governing Council.

• In 2018, he was appointed as an advisor to the Meghalaya government.

• Bose entered politics in 2019 and became a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

• Although he kept himself away from state politics, he networked with the national leaders.

• In 2021, after the Bharatiya Janata Party failed to perform well at the Kerala Assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought Ananda’s suggestions to revive the party in Kerala. A report for submitted for the same by Ananda, which did not go well with the existing leadership in Kerala.

• On 17 November 2022, the President of India Droupadi Murmu named C. V. Ananda Bose as the twenty-second governor of West Bengal. Ananda assumed the office on 23 November 2022 and took over the responsibilities of the governor from Manipur Governor La Ganesan, the interim governor of West Bengal who assumed the additional charge as the governor of West Bengal on 18 July 2022 after Jagdeep Dhankhar (previous governor of West Bengal) was elected as the Vice-President of India.

• Ananda Bose took the oath at Raj Bhavan in the presence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Speaker Biman Banerjee, and other state ministries. The oath was administered to him by Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court Prakash Shrivastava.
  

  C. V. Ananda Bose swearing in as the governor of West Bengal

• After taking the charge as the governor of West Bengal, C. V. Ananda addressed the media and said,
  

  I consider this as a great opportunity for me to know the great state firsthand, to interact with the people and be of some service to the people of West Bengal. I don’t see the governor’s post as a big position but as an opportunity to commit my service to the welfare of the people.”

• C. V. Ananda Bose is well-versed in three languages- English, Hindi, and Malayalam.

• He is very active in literary works and has published 45 books in Hindi, English, and Malayalam which consist of novels, short stories, poems, and essays.

• Although a Malayali by birth, Ananda was given the Bengali surname ‘Bose’ after Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose by his father as his father was a great admirer of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

• Bose is fond of the Bengali white rosogollas.

• Ananda is the second civil service officer to become the governor of West Bengal during Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s tenure (2010-2014). The first one being M. K. Narayanan.

• Post his retirement as an IAS officer, Ananda has put his efforts in upholding India’s heritage with his writings and media interviews. His efforts at social integration and mainstreaming of minorities has made perceptible impact in society.

• Known widely for his mastery in oratory, Ananda Bose has addressed many prestigious global forums like the United Nations General Assembly, European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, and International Fusion Energy Organisation.

• He was described as an ‘ace debater’ and ‘man of ideas’ by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as ‘an inspired civil servant’ by PM Manmohan Singh, and as ‘lord of ideas’ by the government of Kerala. He is also known as the ‘makeover man’ of the civil service.

• According to some sources, during the lockdown period in India due to Covid-19, the labour ministry sought an action plan from Bose for the welfare of migrant workers.

• In November 2023, Ananda claimed that attempts at snooping were being made at his official residence. While making this allegation, in an interview, he asserted that he had credible information about the incident; however, he refrained from disclosing any specific names. ^[6]Hindustan Times In the interview, Ananda said,
  

  It is a fact. I had reliable information about snooping in Raj Bhavan. That issue has been flagged to the concerned authorities. I will wait and watch.”

• On 20 June 2024, he said he was not feeling safe with the contingent of Kolkata Police posted at Raj Bhavan in Kolkata. He had earlier ordered the police personnel to vacate the Raj Bhavan premises.