New Delhi, July 26 : Founder secretary general of the Federation of Associations of Senior Citizens of India (FASCI), V. S. Bhat, died today at the age of 85.
Family sources said that Bhat, who was ailing for the past few days, passed away at his Sarvodaya Enclave house in New Delhi.
He leaves behind his wife and two sons. The elder son, Ravindra Bhat, is a judge of the Delhi High Court.
V. S. Bhat had worked in many important centre statistical organisations. He joined in the late 1940s, when the Indian Statistical Service was started. He was deputy director general when he retired in 1982.