Former Engineer-in-Chief and Secretary to Government in the Works Department Prof GC Mitra passed away here on Thursday. He was 85.
Prof Mitra, who was conferred with the Padma Shri in 2003, played a prominent role in the restoration of the Jagannath Temple at Puri and Sun Temple at Konark as a Member of the Core Committee constituted by the Archaeological Survey of India.
While serving the Government, he did his MTech and PhD from IIT, Kharagpur and subsequently worked as a professor in the same institute.
Prof Mitra almost singlehandedly developed the IIT, Kharagpur Bhubaneswar campus, which subsequently led to the establishment of IIT, Bhubaneswar.
He also played a prominent role in construction of a large number of cyclone shelters, which came up in the aftermath of the 1999 Super Cyclone.