Sri Krushna Chandra Gajapati (26 April 1892 – 25 May 1974), honorably known as Maharaja Sir Krushna Chandra Gajapati Narayana Dev, was the architect of the Independent Odisha State.
Sir Gajapati was a scion of the great Ganga Dynasty of Paralakhemundi, a Great Freedom Fighter, the first Prime Minister of Odisha and one of the founding fathers of the Indian Constitution, being a Member of the Constituent Assembly of India.
He was instrumental in the establishment of the Utkal University, the SCB Medical College, the famous Central Rice Research Institute in Bidyadharpur, Cuttack, which is one of the largest of its kind in Asia and MKCG Medical College & Hospital in Berhampur.
Apart from these institutes he set up many hospitals, schools, colleges, industrial institutions, modern agricultural farms and provided a record number of 1281 irrigation sagars or big water-tanks in his agriculturally dominant native undivided Ganjam District. For this reason, the undivided Ganjam District was given the title 'the rice-bowl of Odisha'.
RAM PRASAD TRIPATHY
PRESIDENT, ODISHA DEVELOPMENT FORUM
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