V. C. Pande
Vinod Chandra Pande was an Indian Civil Servant of the Rajasthan Cadre, and was, notably, Cabinet Secretary in 1989–1990.
He was born to a family which contributed two other Cabinet Secretaries.
He was Cabinet Secretary from 23 December 1989 to 11 December 1990 under Prime Minister V. P. Singh. They had earlier studied together at Allahabad University.
He served as Governor of Bihar, Jharkhand, and Arunachal Pradesh, as an appointee of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.
He had been a bachelor. He was a scholar of Hindi, Pali, and Sanskrit, and a prolific writer in Hindi. He died in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, two months after leaving the governorship of Arunachal Pradesh.
