Keshav Dev Malviya

Keshav Dev Malaviya (11 August 1904 – 27 May 1981) was a leader of Indian National Congress and a union minister of India. He was a member of Lok Sabha from Domariyaganj, Uttar Pradesh. He received his degree in oil technology from HBTI Kanpur (now HBTU Kanpur). He served as a Minister of Petroleum in the 1970s in the Congress government. He is also known as the Father of the Indian Petroleum Industry.^[2]

Keshav Dev Malaviya
Minister of Mines and Fuel
In office 10 April 1962 – 27 May 1964
Prime Minister	Jawaharlal Nehru
Preceded by	Swaran Singh
Succeeded by	Chidambaram Subramaniam
Personal details
Born	(1904-08-11)11 August 1904
Died	27 May 1981(1981-05-27) (aged 76)[1] New Delhi, India
Political party	Indian National Congress

Notes

• Reed, Stanley (1950). The Indian And Pakistan Year Book And Who's Who 1950. Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd. p. 710.

In honour of K.D. Malaviya, Dibrugarh University, Assam has established a chair for research purpose in the department of Applied Geology, with collaboration with Oil India Ltd. Duliajan in 1991. This chair is dedicated for research in the field of oil and natural gas.