Daying Ering Explained

Daying Ering
Office:Chairman, Ering Commission
Term Start:1964
Term End:1967
President:Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Birth Date:1929 12, df=yes
Birth Place:Runne, East Siang district, NEFA, British India
Death Place:Shillong, India
Nationality:Indian
Party:NEFA Sangam
Spouse:Odam Ering
Children:Ninong Ering
Footnotes:[1]

Daying Ering (1929–1970) was an Indian politician from Arunachal Pradesh.[2] [3] He was the chairman of the Ering Commission which heavily influenced the country's panchayati raj system.

He was a Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs in First Indira Gandhi ministry from 15 February 1966 to 13 March 1967. He again served as Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Community Development and Cooperation in Second Indira Gandhi ministry from 18 March 1967 to 21 June 1970.

Biography

Ering was born in an Adi family in Runne village near Pasighat in 1929. He started his career in the Indian Frontier Administrative Service. Later, in 1963, he was nominated as a Member of the Lok Sabha from NEFA by the President of India. He was later appointed as the Parliament Secretary and a Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.[4]

In 1964, he chaired the Ering Commission, an investigative body looking into governmental decentralization.[5] The Commission's report, in 1965, recommended a four-tier system of local government, and heavily influenced the adoption of the Panchayati Raj system.[6] [7]

Ering died in Shillong, in 1970. The Daying Ering Memorial Wild Life Sanctuary in the East Siang district is named after him.[8] Other places and institutions and places named after him include the Daying Ering College of Teachers' Education, Daying Ering Memorial Middle School, Daying Ering Memorial Higher Secondary School Pasighat, Daying Ering Wildlife Foundation Eco-Development Society and Daying Ering Colony. After his death, C. C. Gohain was nominated as a Member of the Lok Sabha from NEFA by the President of India.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Former Union Deputy Minister – Late Daying Ering . Government of Arunachal Pradesh . 2014-09-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140324231801/http://arunachalipr.gov.in/xGovLed.htm . 24 March 2014 . dead .
  2. Book: Nari Rustomji . Imperilled frontiers: India's north-eastern borderlands . 1983 . Oxford . 125. 978-0-19-561483-1 .
  3. Book: Rajani Kanta Patir . Dawn in the East: An Autobiography . 1999 . Vitastā . 978-81-86588-04-8 . 63.
  4. Web site: Obituary reference . Proceedings of the Second Session of the Provisional Meghalaya Legislative Assembly . 1970-09-21 .
  5. Book: Hamlet Bareh . Encyclopaedia of North-East India . 2001 . Mittal Publications . 978-81-7099-788-7 . 78.
  6. Book: Joram Begi . Education in Arunachal Pradesh Since 1947: Constraints, Opportunities, Initiatives and Needs . 2007 . Mittal Publications . 978-81-8324-211-0 . 16–17.
  7. Book: Pratap Chandra Swain . Panchayati Raj: The Grassroots Dynamics in Arunachal Pradesh . 1 January 2008 . APH Publishing . 978-81-313-0379-5 . 48.
  8. News: Deer roam free in once poachers' den . https://web.archive.org/web/20131121075442/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130613/jsp/northeast/story_17001656.jsp#.VA9demNvayM . dead . 21 November 2013 . The Telegraph . 2013-06-13 . Pullock Dutta.