Dhiraj Kumar Nath, a former bureaucrat and adviser to a caretaker government, died of cardiac arrest in a Dhaka hospital yesterday, aged 73.
He left behind his wife and two sons to mourn his death.
Dhiraj breathed his last around 6:10pm at Labaid Specialized Hospital, a day after he was hospitalised as his health condition deteriorated in the last few days, said his son-in-law Subir Chowdhury.
After hospitalisation in the morning, Dhiraj was shifted to the CCU on Thursday noon and then put on life support until his death.
His two sons, who live in Canada, would arrive in Dhaka today to attend his cremation ceremony, said Subir.
Dhiraj, born on January 9 in 1945 at Rafiqpur village of Begumganj in Noakhali, passed his entrance exam from Chaumuhani Modonmohan High School in 1960. He obtained his post-graduate degree in commerce, management from Dhaka University in 1966.
After a short teaching profession at Noakhali Government College, he joined the East Pakistan Civil Service in 1969. He took part in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 and then joined civil service.
He retired as secretary of Rural Development and Cooperative Division in 2003. In 2006, he was appointed as one of the 10 advisers to the caretaker government.
Dhiraj also wrote some books, including “Pother Dudharay” and “Shompritir Jonopoday”, and columns in the newspapers.
