C V Ananda Bose was on Thursday (November 17, 2022) appointed the regular Governor of West Bengal, a communique from the Rashtrapati Bhavan said. His appointment will take effect on the date he assumes charge of his office, it added.”The President of India is pleased to appoint Dr C V Ananda Bose as regular Governor of West Bengal,” the communique said.Manipur Governor La Ganesan has been holding the additional charge of West Bengal since July this year after incumbent Jagdeep Dhankhar was nominated as the vice presidential candidate by the BJP-led NDA.
Born in Kerala’s Kottayam District on January 2, 1951, CV Ananda Bose is a former Bureaucrat who retired from the Indian Administrative service at the rank of Chief Secretary (Secretary to Govt. of India). He has done his Ph.D. from BITS Pilani and MA in English Language and Literature from Kerala University.He has also been the district collector of Quilon district (now Kollam) in Kerala.A 1977 batch (retired) IAS officer of Kerala cadre, Bose last served as an administrator in the National Museum in Kolkata before superannuating in 2011.