Panchanan Maheshwari
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He encouraged general education and made a significant contribution to school education by his leadership in bringing out the very first textbooks of Biology for Higher Secondary Schools published by NCERT in 1964.
He is also known as father of Indian plant embryology also wrote a book- an introduction to embryology of Angiosperms. He encouraged general education and made a significant contribution to school education by his leadership in bringing out the very first textbooks of Biology for Higher Secondary Schools published by NCERT in 1964. Provided by Wikipedia
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