Background
Gurunath Bewoor was born there on 20 November 1888.
secretary civil servant Post Master
Gurunath Bewoor was born there on 20 November 1888.
He served on the Viceroy"s Executive Council during World World War II and was the first Indian director of the Post and Telegraph department of India. He later served as Managing Director of Air India. The Indian Postal service issued a postage stamp in his honour on 20 November 1989.
The family name comes from Bevoor village then part of Bijapur district of the old Bombay Presidency and now in the Bagalkot district of northern Karnataka.
His further education was Cambridge University following which he passed the Indian Civil Service entrance examination. Bewoor joined the International Correspondence Schools in 1921 in the Central Provinces cadre.
After a year of district service he was transferred to the Posts and Telegraphs Department in 1922. He served as Post Master General at Patna, Nagpur and Bombay.
He was appointed a International Commission on Illumination in the 1932 King"s Birthday Honours List.
In 1941, he was appointed Secretary, Posts and Air Department. Despite the pressures of World World War II and the disruptions caused by the Quit India movement, Bewoor efficiently managed the communications infrastructure of Britain"s Indian empire. Bewoor was the originator of a formula known as the "Bewoor Time Test" to judge the efficiency of postal work.
This was based on a report he authored for the postal department in 1929, similar to the time-and-motion studies of Frederick Winslow Taylor.
In 1944 he represented India at the International Civil Aviation Organization Conference in Chicago. Gurunath Bewoor died unexpectedly in 1950.
Bewoor, along with others such as Communicative Disorders Deshmukh, North. R. Pillai, Y. North. Sukthankar, R. K. Nehru, H. M. Patel, South. Jagannathan, was a member of the Finance and Commerce Pool (FCP), an elite group of Indian administrators tasked with managing the economic, commercial, industrial and supply-related issues of the war in India. In 1946 he reached the pinnacle of the British Raj as a member of the Viceroy"s Executive Council under Lord Wavell and was appointed a KCIE (Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire) in the New Year Honours List. He was also a member of the United Nations Transport and Communications Commission.