Daying Ering
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Daying Ering
| image =
| caption =
| office = Chairman, Ering Commission
| term_start = 1964
| term_end = 1967
| president = Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1929|12|11}}
| birth_place = Runne, East Siang district, NEFA, British India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1970|06|21|1929|12|11}}
| death_place = Shillong, India
| nationality = Indian
| party = NEFA Sangam
| spouse = Odam Ering
| children = Ninong Ering
}}
Daying Ering (1929–1970) was an Indian politician from Arunachal Pradesh.{{cite book |author=Nari Rustomji |title=Imperilled frontiers: India's north-eastern borderlands |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DH0eAAAAMAAJ |year=1983 |publisher=Oxford |page=125|isbn=978-0-19-561483-1 }}{{cite book |author=Rajani Kanta Patir |title=Dawn in the East: An Autobiography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4RqKAAAAMAAJ |year=1999 |publisher=Vitastā |isbn=978-81-86588-04-8 |page=63}} He was the chairman of the Ering Commission which heavily influenced the country's panchayati raj system.
He was a Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs in First Indira Gandhi ministry from 15 February 1966 to 13 March 1967. He again served as Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Community Development and Cooperation in Second Indira Gandhi ministry from 18 March 1967 to 21 June 1970.
Biography
Ering was born in an Adi family in Runne village near Pasighat in 1929. He started his career in the Indian Frontier Administrative Service. Later, in 1963, he was nominated as a Member of the Lok Sabha from NEFA by the President of India. He was later appointed as the Parliament Secretary and a Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.{{cite web |url=http://megassembly.gov.in/proceedings/1970/21-09-1970.htm |title=Obituary reference |work=Proceedings of the Second Session of the Provisional Meghalaya Legislative Assembly |date=1970-09-21 }}
In 1964, he chaired the Ering Commission, an investigative body looking into governmental decentralization.{{cite book |author=Hamlet Bareh |title=Encyclopaedia of North-East India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MtxjZMg6g9YC&pg=PA78 |year=2001 |publisher=Mittal Publications |isbn=978-81-7099-788-7 |page=78}} The Commission's report, in 1965, recommended a four-tier system of local government, and heavily influenced the adoption of the Panchayati Raj system.{{cite book |author=Joram Begi |title=Education in Arunachal Pradesh Since 1947: Constraints, Opportunities, Initiatives and Needs |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CgcfXjMcgZkC&pg=PA16 |year=2007 |publisher=Mittal Publications |isbn=978-81-8324-211-0 |pages=16–17}}{{cite book |author=Pratap Chandra Swain |title=Panchayati Raj: The Grassroots Dynamics in Arunachal Pradesh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DnSGTk1yX84C&pg=PA48 |date=1 January 2008 |publisher=APH Publishing |isbn=978-81-313-0379-5 |page=48}}
Ering died in Shillong, in 1970. The Daying Ering Memorial Wild Life Sanctuary in the East Siang district is named after him.{{cite news |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130613/jsp/northeast/story_17001656.jsp#.VA9demNvayM |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131121075442/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130613/jsp/northeast/story_17001656.jsp#.VA9demNvayM |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 November 2013 |title=Deer roam free in once poachers' den |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=2013-06-13 |author=Pullock Dutta}} Other places and institutions and places named after him include the Daying Ering College of Teachers' Education, Daying Ering Memorial Middle School, Daying Ering Memorial Higher Secondary School Pasighat, Daying Ering Wildlife Foundation Eco-Development Society and Daying Ering Colony. After his death, C. C. Gohain was nominated as a Member of the Lok Sabha from NEFA by the President of India.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}
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Category:Arunachal Pradesh politicians
Category:People from East Siang district