{"id":49292,"date":"2018-05-29T04:24:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T04:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=49292"},"modified":"2018-05-29T04:24:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T04:24:03","slug":"ashok-mitra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/ashok-mitra\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashok Mitra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question- Recently, Ashok Mitra passed away. He was-<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Scientist<br \/>\n(b) Educationist<br \/>\n(c) Historian<br \/>\n(d) Economist<br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (d)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On May 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 2018, the famous economist and former West Bengal finance minister Ashok Mitra passed away in Kolkata. He was 90 years old.<\/li>\n<li>He was finance minister from 1977 to 1987 in the Left Front government in West Bengal.<\/li>\n<li>Apart from this he was also Chief Economic Advisor of the Central Government from 1970 to 1972.<\/li>\n<li>He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for his contribution to Bengali literature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/eminent-economist-and-former-west-bengal-finance-minister-ashok-mitra-dead\/article23737235.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/eminent-economist-and-former-west-bengal-finance-minister-ashok-mitra-dead\/article23737235.ece<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/pti-stories\/eminent-economist-and-former-lf-minister-ashok-mitra-dead-118050100299_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/pti-stories\/eminent-economist-and-former-lf-minister-ashok-mitra-dead-118050100299_1.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question- Recently, Ashok Mitra passed away. He was- (a) Scientist (b) Educationist (c) Historian (d) Economist Answer: (d) Related Facts: On May 1st, 2018, the famous economist and former West Bengal finance minister Ashok Mitra passed away in Kolkata. He was 90 years old. He was finance minister from 1977 to 1987 in the Left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[2348],"class_list":["post-49292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pers","tag-personalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}