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Narinder Nath Vohra (born 5 May 1936), popularly referred as N. N. Vohra, is a retired 1959 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Punjab cadre who was the 12th governor of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. He was the first civilian governor of Jammu and Kashmir in eighteen years after Jagmohan.
Narinder Nath Vohra | |
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| 12th Governor of Jammu and Kashmir | |
| In office 25 June 2008 – 23 August 2018 | |
| Chief Minister | Ghulam Nabi Azad Omar Abdullah Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Mehbooba Mufti |
| Preceded by | S. K. Sinha |
| Succeeded by | Satya Pal Malik[1] |
| 8th Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India | |
| In office 1 July 1997 – 19 March 1998 | |
| Appointed by | Appointments Committee of the Cabinet |
| Prime Minister | I. K. Gujral |
| Preceded by | T. R. Satishchandran |
| Succeeded by | Brajesh Mishra |
| Home Secretary of India | |
| In office 1 April 1993 – 31 May 1994 | |
| Appointed by | Appointments Committee of the Cabinet |
| 22nd Defence Secretary of India | |
| In office 1 March 1990 – 1 April 1993 | |
| Appointed by | Appointments Committee of the Cabinet |
| Preceded by | T. N. Seshan |
| Succeeded by | K. A. Nambiar |
| 18th Defence Production Secretary of India | |
| In office 1 May 1989 – 1 March 1990 | |
| Appointed by | Appointments Committee of the Cabinet |
| Preceded by | P. C. Jain |
| Succeeded by | N. Raghunathan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Narinder Nath Vohra 5 May 1936 Punjab, India |
| Alma mater | Panjab University Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford |
| Occupation | Retired IAS officer |
| Awards | Padma Vibhushan (2007) |
As an IAS officer, Vohra has also served as Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India, Home Secretary of India, Defence Secretary of India and Defence Production Secretary of India.
From February 2003 until he became the governor of the state, Vohra had been the Government of India's interlocutor in Jammu and Kashmir. He was awarded India's second highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibhushan, for his contributors to the field civil service, in 2007.
Vohra is a postgraduate (MA) and topper in English from Panjab University.[2] Vohra also was a visiting fellow at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford.[2]
Before being appointed an IAS officer, Vohra served as lecturer in the Panjab University.[2]
Vohra served in key positions for both the Government of India and the Government of Punjab, such as Secretary (Home), Commissioner and Secretary (Industries), Finance Commissioner, Commissioner (Urban Development), Secretary (Urban Development), Punjab's labour commissioner, Director (Information) and as Director (Panchayati Raj) in the Government of Punjab;[3][2][4] as Union Home Secretary, Union Defence Secretary, Union Defence Production Secretary, additional secretary in the Department of Defence of the Ministry of Defence, joint secretary in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and as an area organiser in the Cabinet Secretariat in the Government of India.[3][2][4]
Vohra also served as a consultant to the World Health Organization.[3][2][4]
Vohra was appointed Union Defence Production Secretary by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC), he assumed the office of Defence Production Secretary on 1 May 1989,[3][2][4] and remitted it on 1 March 1990.[3][2][4]
Vohra was appointed Union Defence Secretary by ACC, he assumed the office of Defence Secretary on 1 March 1990,[3][2][4] and demitted it on 1 April 1993,[3][2][4] serving for more than three years.
N. N. Vohra was appointed Union Home Secretary by ACC after the 1993 Bombay serial bomb blasts,[5][6][7] he assumed the office of Home Secretary on 1 April 1993,[3][2][4] and demitted it and simultaneously superannuated from service on 31 May 1994.[3][2][4]
N. N. Vohra was appointed Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India, Inder Kumar Gujral, and the administrative head of Prime Minister's Office by ACC in June 1997, he assumed the office of principal secretary on 1 July 1997,[3][2][4] and demitted it on 19 March 1998.[3][2][4]
N. N. Vohra was appointed India's interlocutor for carrying out the Jammu and Kashmir dialogue by the Government of India in 2003,[3][2] he remained as India's interlocutor till 2008,[3][2] when he was appointed Governor of Jammu and Kashmir.
As the interlocutor, Vohra had been holding wide-ranging discussions with both the elected representatives in the state and also the separatists in a bid to forge a common ground for the all-round development of the state.[3]
Vohra was appointed Governor of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) by President of India in 2008,[3][8] his first act as the governor of J&K was to rescind the controversial Amarnath shrine land transfer order.[9]
Vohra was reappointed the governor of Jammu and Kashmir by the president of India in 2013.[10][11][12] Vohra retired from the position of governor in August 2018 and was replaced by Satya Pal Malik, a Bharatiya Janata Party politician and a former governor of the state of Bihar.[6][13]
Vohra ruled Jammu and Kashmir directly four times (governor's rule) during his tenure as governor,[6][7][14][13] with his tenure as state governor being widely seen to be a positive one.[5][6][7][14][13]
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