Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar - As President of ECOSOC

As President of ECOSOC

Mudaliar served as India's delegate to the United Nations at the San Francisco Conference between April 25 and June 26, 1945 where he chaired the committee which discussed economic and social problems. Mudaliar was elected as the First President of the Economic and Social Council during its session at Church House, London, on January 23, 1946. Under his presidency, the Economic and Social Council passed a resolution in February 1946 calling for an international health conference. At the health conference which was eventually held on June 19, 1946, inaugurated by Sir Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar, the World Health Organization came into being and the constitution for the new organization was read out and approved by delegates from 61 nations. On the expiry of his one-year term, he returned to India and took over as the Chief Minister of Mysore.