Osman Ghani Khan

Osman Ghani Khan
Osman Ghani Khan
ওসমান গণি খান
Chairman of United Nations Board of Auditors
	In office; 1980–1982
2nd Comptroller and Auditor General (Bangladesh)
	In office; 1 March 1976 – 31 December 1982
Preceded by	Fazle Kader Muhammad Abdul Baqui
Succeeded by	A K Azizul Huq
Member of Parliament
	In office; 20 March 1991 – 30 March 1996
Preceded by	Mokbul Hossain
Succeeded by	AKM Salim Reza Habib
Constituency	Pabna-2
State Minister of Public Administration
Prime Minister	Khaleda Zia
Personal details
Born	1 January 1923; Bera, Pabna, Bengal Presidency, British India; (now in Bangladesh)
Died	26 April 2000 (aged 77); Singapore
Political party	Bangladesh Nationalist Party
Relations	Nurul Alam Khan (Brother)
Education	MA (economics)
Alma mater	University of Calcutta

Osman Ghani Khan (1923-2000) was the former chairman of the United Nations Board of Auditors, a Bangladeshi civil servant, economist, Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament of Pabna-2.

Education

Khan passed higher secondary from Government Saadat College in 1940. In 1943 and 1945, he received his B.A. (Honours) and M.A. in Economics from University of Calcutta, respectively. He joined the Bengal Civil Service as a Deputy Magistrate in 1946, initially serving at Barasat.

Career

Khan transferred to the East Bengal Civil Service in 1947 and served as Additional District Magistrate of Dinajpur and Mymensingh. Thereafter he was appointed as Special Secretary in the Provincial Home Ministry. In 1954 he was appointed as District Magistrate of Barisal and in 1956, he became District Magistrate of Jessore. For a time in the 1960s he served as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Education. Khan was appointed the first Defense secretary of Bangladesh in 1972.^[1] He was appointed to the constitutional post Comptroller and Auditor General of Bangladesh at 1976. From 1980 to 1982, Khan was elected as chairman of the United Nations Board of Auditors.^[2] After retirement, he was elected as a member of parliament from Pabna-2 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1991.^[3] He was appointed the Minister of Public Administration.^[1]

Death

Khan died on 26 April 2000 in Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Reminiscing Osman Ghani Khan". The Daily Star. 26 April 2009. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
^ UN Board of Auditors (1981). "Financial report and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 1980 and report of the Board of Auditors". United Nations Digital Library. New York. p. 25. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
^ "Parliament Election Result of 1991, 1996, 2001 Bangladesh Election Information and Statistics". Vote Monitor Networks. Archived from the original on 29 December 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2018.

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[thedailystar-1] "Reminiscing Osman Ghani Khan". The Daily Star. 26 April 2009. Retrieved 15 November 2019.

[UN_Board_of_Auditors-2] UN Board of Auditors (1981). "Financial report and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 1980 and report of the Board of Auditors". United Nations Digital Library. New York. p. 25. Retrieved 9 March 2020.

[votemonitor-3] "Parliament Election Result of 1991, 1996, 2001 Bangladesh Election Information and Statistics". Vote Monitor Networks. Archived from the original on 29 December 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2018.

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