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Details of the life sketch of
Smt. Sharda Mukerjee-Governor of Gujarat
Smt. Sharda
Mukerjee was born at Bombay on February 24,
1919. She is the daugher of shri Pratap Sitaram
Pandit and niece of Smt. Vijayalakshmi Pandit.
Smt. Mukerjee
was educated in Bombay at the Cathedral Girls'
High School and later at the Elphinstone College
and Law College.
During World
War II, she married the then Squadren Leader
Subroto Mukerjee who later rose to the rank of
Air Chief Marshal, the first Indian to attain
that rank and to become the Chief of the Indian
Air Force. His tragic death occurred in November
1960 in Tokyo where he had gone on duty.
Smt. Mukerjee
had been a social worker for many years. She was
a member of the Trustees of Cheshire Homes India
- Central Trust; a member of the Executive
Committee of the Indian Air Force Benevolent
Association. She was also Chairman of the Armed
Forces Welfare Association - a Sub-Committee of
the Citizen's Central Committee at Delhi, under
the Presidentship of the then Prime Minister,
Smt. Indira Gandhi. She was a member of study
Teams on Planning and defence matters of the
Administrative Reforms Commission. She was
elected to the Lok Sabha (Parliament) from the
North - Ratnagiri Constituency (Maharastra) in
1962 and 1967, on the Congress ticket.
Smt. Mukerjee
was a member of the All - India Congress
Committee and a member of the Executive
Committee of the Congress Parliamentary Party,
(Undivided - Congress). After the Congress Split
in 1969, She opted for the Congress (O) which is
a constituent of the Janata Party.
As an M.P., she
served on a number of important committees such
as the National Shipping Board; Parliamentary
Committee such as Consultative Committee of the
Defence Ministry and Chairman of the National
Small Savings Advisory Board.
Smt. Mukerjee
had a special interest for economic affairs,
philosophy, Sanskrit Literature and Fefence
matters. Besides, she published articles on
defence and political matters. She was
interested in sports, music and reading.
She had
travelled widely in Europe, U.S.A., West Asia
and in the far East as far as Indonesia. She had
been a leader of Parliamentary Delegations to
West Germany, U.K., Senegal and a member of
delegations to the Soviet Union and Outer
Mongolia.
Smt. Mukerjee
was appointed as the Governor of Andhra Pradesh
on May 5, 1977. She also worked as the Governor
of Gujarat from 14.8.1978 to 05.08.1983. |
