Raj Kumar Talwar

Talwar was known for his values, integrity, dynamism and professionalism. He left the Bank on 3 August 1976, at age 54.Settling in Pondicherry, he served on boards of companies and headed the Industrial Development Bank of India in the late 1970s. He lived a spartan life and traveled around Pondicherry on a bicycle. He died on 23 April 2002. Talwar's name is linked with the issue of customer service.

He initiated the first ever restructuring of the Bank in 1971, which held for over three decades.

He initiated the approach of employing professional bankers as bank chiefs when he became Chairman on 1 March 1969. He was the youngest Chairman ever.

On 1 February 1968 he was appointed as one of the banks' two Managing Directors, becoming the youngest to achieve that office.

He became the first Secretary and Treasurer of the Hyderabad Circle when it was created in 1965. In January 1966, Talwar was appointed as Secretary and Treasurer of the Bombay Circle.

In 1961, he was appointed Deputy Secretary and Treasurer in the Bengal Circle. A year later, he moved to the Madras Circle in the same capacity.

He joined the Imperial Bank of India at Lahore in November 1943 as probationary assistant. At the bank he served as Superintendent of Branches and Superintendent of Advances in the Bengal Circle and Inspector of Branches under Central Office.

Raj Kumar Talwar (1922–2002) was an Indian business executive. He served as chairman of State Bank of India who was sacked by the Indira Gandhi government in the emergency in 1976 for refusing to grant loans to people favoured by the government. As no provision in the SBI Act allowed them to terminate the chairman, the Act had was amended to sack him.

He was born in 1922. He earned an M.A. degree in Mathematics from Lahore University.