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{{Infobox Officeholder
|name = Mulk Raj Sachdev
|native_name =
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|office3 = [[List of Governors of Goa|Lieutenant-Governor of Goa, Daman and Diu]]
|1blankname3 = Chief Minister
|1namedata3 = [[Dayanand Bandodkar]]
|term_start3 = 2 September 1963
|term_end3 = 8 December 1964
|predecessor3 = T. Sivasankar
|successor3 = Hari Sharma
|birth_date = {{birth date|1903|10|12|df=y}}
|birth_place =
|death_date = {{death date and age|1964|12|8|1903|10|12|df=y}}
|death_place = [[Panjim]], [[Goa]], India
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|spouse =
|alma_mater = [[Government College University (Lahore)|Government College, Lahore]] <br>[[University of the Punjab]]<br>[[Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge]]
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'''Mulk Raj Sachdev''' [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]], [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]], [[Indian Civil Service (British India)|ICS]] (12 October 1903 - 8 December 1964) was an Indian civil servant and administrator who served as the [[Lieutenant-Governor]] of the [[Union Territory]] of [[Goa]], [[Daman and Diu]] from 2 September 1963 until his death while in office.

==Life and career==
Sachdev received his early education in [[Quetta]]. After university studies at [[Government College University (Lahore)|Government College, Lahore]] and at the [[University of the Punjab]], he took a B.A. from [[Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge]] and entered the [[Indian Civil Service (British India)|Indian Civil Service]] (ICS) in October 1928.<ref name="sachdev">{{cite book|pages=323|title=The India Office and Burma Office List: 1945|first= |last=|publisher=Harrison & Sons, Ltd.|year=1945|isbn=|subject=}}</ref><ref name="Gazette_of_India">{{cite web|title=The Gazette of India - Extraordinary|url=http://www.pib.nic.in/archive/docs/DVD_44/ACC%20NO%20836-BR/HOM-1964-12-08-6382.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|accessdate=July 6, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33436 |date=6 November 1928 |page=7217 |supp= |nolink=y}}</ref> He began his service in the Punjab as an assistant commissioner, and was promoted to deputy commissioner (officiating) in April 1933, eventually rising to additional deputy secretary in the Home Department of the Government of the Punjab.<ref name="sachdev"/>

By the time of the [[Second World War]], he was a deputy secretary in the Supply Department of the Government of India, and was appointed an Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in the [[1942 Birthday Honours]] list.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=35586 |date=5 June 1942 |page=2498 |supp= |nolink=y}}</ref> In October 1943, he was appointed deputy director-general for Disposals, returning to service in the Punjab in 1945 as an additional secretary and director-general of civil supplies and rationing.<ref name="sachdev"/> He was appointed a Companion of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]] (CIE) in the [[1946 Birthday Honours]] list.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=37598 |date=4 June 1946 |page=2763 |supp=y |nolink=y}}</ref>

After India's independence, Sachdev served as Chief Secretary in the newly formed state of [[East Punjab]] (subsequently [[Punjab, India|Punjab]]) from 1949 until 1953.<ref name="Gazette_of_India"/> In 1953, he was appointed Director-General of Supplies and Disposals for the federal government, and was appointed as Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Works, Housing and Supply the following year.<ref name="Gazette_of_India"/> He subsequently served as Secretary in the Ministry of Irrigation and Power, also holding the position of Chairman of the [[Damodar Valley Corporation]] for a time. Sachdev was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Goa, Daman and Diu on 2 September 1963, but was in the post for barely over a year before his death in office on 8 December 1964.<ref name="Gazette_of_India"/>

==References==
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[[Category:Governors of Goa]]
[[Category:Indian civil servants]]
[[Category:Indian Civil Service (British India) officers]]
[[Category:Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire]]
[[Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire]]
[[Category:1903 births]]
[[Category:1964 deaths]]

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