SYAMA PRASAD MOOKERJEE PORT

About:

• The Kolkata Port is the first Major Port as well as the only riverine port of the country.
  
  
• It came to be governed by a Trust in 1870 on appointment of the Commissioners for Improvement of the Port of Calcutta as per Act V of 1870.
  
  
• It features at Serial Number 1 in The First Schedule, Part I—Major Ports of the Indian Ports Act, 1908 and is governed by the Major Port Trusts Act, 1963.
  
  

Syama Prasad Mukherjee:

• Syama Prasad Mukherjee (1901 – 1953) was an Indian politician, barrister and academician.
  
  
• He served as the Minister for Industry and Supply in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet.
  
  
• He quit the Union Government because of differences of opinion with the Nehru-led government and founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the predecessor to the Bharatiya Janata Party, in 1951.