Moorkoth Ramunni

{{short description|Royal Indian Air Force pilot}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

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| caption = Moorkoth Ramunny

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| birth_date = 15 September 1915

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| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2009|7|9|1915|9|15}}

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| nationality = Indian

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| known_for = Writer, administrator

| occupation = pilot

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Moorkoth Ramunni (15 September 1915 – 9 July 2009) was a Malayali fighter pilot in the Royal Indian Air Force, and the first Indian Administrative officer from Dharmadam village.{{cite book|last=Ratheesh Kumar|title=Classrooms and Playgrounds: Mapping Educational Change, Kerala|date=11 August 2010|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_GakBgAAQBAJ&dq=moorkoth+ramunni&pg=PA63|page=63|publisher=Cambridge Scholars |isbn=9781443824583}} the youngest son of Moorkoth Kumaran.{{cite web|url=http://www.mathrubhumi.com/php/newFrm.php?news_id=1238510&n_type=HO&category_id=1&Farc=&previous=Y|title=Moorkoth Kanunnu Andharichu|publisher=Mathrubhumi|language=Malayalam|accessdate=9 July 2009|archive-date=22 July 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090722120741/http://www.mathrubhumi.com/php/newFrm.php?news_id=1238510&n_type=HO&category_id=1&Farc=&previous=Y|url-status=dead}}

He was an aviator from Kerala of the Royal Indian Air Force (later Indian Air Force). He was a Hurricane pilot in 1st Squadron that saw action against Japan in the Arakan Campaign in the Second World War. He worked in the Cabinet Secretariat in 1947.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mathrubhumi.com/print-edition/kerala/article-1.4118523|title=Mathrubhumi Newspaper|access-date=4 June 2021|language=en|archive-date=4 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210604083905/https://www.mathrubhumi.com/print-edition/kerala/article-1.4118523|url-status=dead}} He was one among the ten people who were appointed to look after the tribes for 25 years. He was the advisor of the governors of the states Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura. He also assumed the position of the administrator of Lakshadweep. First pilot from Kerala and (Having converted subsequently to the IAS) an administrator. The First Head of Training Team of The Indian National Defence Academy.