Bidhan Chandra Roy

Bidhan Chandra Roy, MRCP, FRCS was the second Chief Minister of West Bengal in India. He remained in his post foryears as an Indian National Congress candidate, from 1948 until his death in 1962. He was a highly respected physician and a renowned freedom fighter. Bidhan Roy is often considered the great architect of West Bengal, who founded five eminent cities, Durgapur, Kalyani, Bidhannagar, Ashokenagar, and Habra. He was an alumnus of the Medical College Calcutta of the University of Calcutta. He is one of the few people who completed both F.R.C.S. and M.R.C.P. simultaneously within only two years and three months. In India, the National Doctors Day is celebrated on the date of his birth July every year. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy constituted a trust for his properties at Patna for social service and made eminent nationalist Ganga Sharan Singh the trustee. He was awarded Bharat Ratna onFebruary 1961, Indias highest civilian honour. He was also a member of the Brahmo Samaj.

Bidhan Chandra Roy was born onJuly 1882 at B. M. Das Road Patna, Bihar as son of Prakash Chandra Roy and Aghorkamini Devi. Bidhan passed Matric examination from Patna Collegiate School in 1897. Bidhan did his I.A. from Presidency College, Calcutta and B.A. from Patna College with Honors in Mathematics. He applied for admission to the Bengal Engineering College, and the Calcutta Medical College. He was accepted to both institutions but opted to go to medical school. Bidhan left for Calcutta in June 1901. While at medical school Bidhan came upon an inscription which read, Whatever thy hands findeth to do, do it with thy might. Bidhan was deeply impressed by these words and they became a source of inspiration for him throughout his life.

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