Bharat Ratna Dr Bidhan Chandra

Bharat Ratna Dr Bidhan  Chandra Dr.Bidhanchandra Ray had two identities, one as physician and the other is politician and quite naturally a question arises whether as a physician or as a politician he was great.To me he should be regarded as an administrator as in view of the fact he took his office as chief minister of West Bengal in 1948 and continued the same till 1962. Now the question may reasonably arise whether he was a great administrator or a good physician. It is extremely difficult to reply to this question since In Both the  cases he was a masterpiece. As a doctor number of stories have been heard  it must be said he was an exceptionally meritorious student. There was a story which says he was interested for engineering studies and accordingly applied for both medical and engineering for medical college and  Shibpur  Engineering college , after waiting for quite some time for a reply from Shibpur Engineering college and no reply having been received being disappointed he was admitted in medical college and after returning home he came to know that the letter from Engineering college selecting him had been received. His family had not capacity to admit in Engineering college once being admitted in medical college. If he had received the letter from Engineering college few hours ago he would have been admitted there in that case we would have not received a world famous doctor in stead we would have received an engineer. As a

 token of his brilliance he completed FRCS and MRCP in a year and the same way very tough  . As regards his medical profession  a good number of stories had been in vogue and his clinical eyes  were  very powerful.He earned the maximum popularity as a doctor. At that time he was the last resort of medical treatment  when other doctors failed to detect diseases the patients were taken  to Dr Ray . Let us discuss his performance as Administrator.He was the second chief minister of West Bengal . At the time of taking over our state was in deep cricis due to partition and the state was in a cute crisis due to the pressure of refugee and food crisis. He with his strong hands had taken the responsibility and discharged the same with great success. He completed many projects.He  estatablished State  Transport corporation  He took initiative in forming Haringhata milkproject    He took initiative for Durgapiur , Bidhanagar 

He took for Durgapiur Steele plant .His another dream was Kalyani . Apart from this he established another two township viz Ashoknagar and Habra He was awarded the highest civil award Bharat Ratna in 1961, He was the most successful Chief minister of fourteen years on the other hand a physician of magnificent calibre having highest degree of both medicine and surgery.He was really a surprising personality who died fifty four years back while it is yet to be settled whether he was a great physician or a great administrator, it suggests that how great he was in both the cases.He also made a record in respect of his death as the same occurred in his eightieth birthday.He  was truly an exceptional person in all respects.