KRK Menon

Konnanath Ramakrishna Menon MBE CIE, known widely as K.R.K. Menon, was the first Finance Secretary of independent India, charged with oversight of Indian Revenue. He further held the offices of Chairman of the Central Board of Revenue,^[1] Chairman of the Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI),^[2] and Chairman of the Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation,^[3] and served as a member of the Planning Commission (India),^[4] Administrative Reforms Commission,^[5] and as a Governor on the Board of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT).^[6]

During the British Raj he was created a Member of the British Empire in 1938 and a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1946.^[7]

He was cousin to Konnanath Balakrishna Menon and father to Bhaskar Menon.^[8]

References

1. Iyengar, A. S. (2001). Role of Press and Indian Freedom Struggle: All Through the Gandhian Era. APH Publishing. ISBN 978-81-7648-256-1.
2. Operations, United States Congress House Committee on Government; Affairs, United States Congress House Committee on Government Operations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and Monetary (1960). Operations of the Development Loan Fund: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Eight-sixth Congress, Second Session. August 18, 19, 27, September 16, 21, 24, and 28, 1959; February 3, 4, 24, March 2 and 7, 1960. U.S. Government Printing Office.
3. Southern Economist. Mrs. Susheela Subrahmanya. 1963.
4. Bhattacharya, A. K. (22 May 2023). India's Finance Ministers: From Independence to Emergency (1947-1977). Penguin Random House India Private Limited. ISBN 978-93-5708-102-3.
5. Sreekumar, G. (1 June 2021). "KRK Menon, First Finance Secretary". Tiger and Palm Tree. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
6. Malhotra, Anil Kumar (1 March 2007). A Passion to Build India's Quest for Offshore Technology a Memoir. Lulu.com. ISBN 978-1-4303-1737-1.
7. His Majesty’s Stationery Office, London (1947). The Indian Office And Burma Office List 1947.
8. Sen, S. P. (1974). Dictionary Of National Biography Vol. 3(m-r).