Smt Karuna Singh, Wife of His Excellency-Sikkim passes away.


02 April, Gangtok: It is with a deep sense of bereavement we inform you the passing away of Sikkim’s First Lady, Smt. Karuna Singh, wife of His Excellency, the Governor of Sikkim, Shri B.P. Singh, in New Delhi at 9.15 pm on 1st April 2010. Smt. Karuna Singh was undergoing medical treatment at Apollo Hospitals in New Delhi when she breathed her last.

Her last rites are being performed at Nigambodh Ghat, Delhi at 4.30 pm on Friday, 2nd April.

Smt. Karuna Singh was born on August 11, 1943 at Bodhgaya. She was brought up at Patna and educated in Bankipur Girls High School and later at Patna Women’s College,

Smt. Karuna Singh got married at an early age to Shri Balmiki Prasad Singh who was then a lecturer at Post Graduate Department of Political Science in Patna University.

On appointment of Mr. B.P. Singh to the IAS in 1964 they moved to Assam. Smt. Karuna Singh engaged herself in cultural and social events of tribal and plains people in Assam.

Smt. Karuna Singh was extremely passionate about gardening and found immense delight in overseeing the beautification of gardens in Raj Bhavan, Gangtok. The Raj Bhavan staff shall always remember her as somebody genuinely interested in their welfare and that of their children.
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