Najeeb Jung

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Najeeb Jung
نجیب جنگ
Najeeb Jung (cropped).JPG
Najeeb Jung at 4th Dr. K. R. Narayanan Memorial Lecture at Jamia Millia Islamia, 2011.
Lieutenant Governor of Delhi
Assumed office
July 9, 2013
Preceded by Tejendra Khanna
Personal details
Born (1951-01-18) January 18, 1951 (age 73)
Delhi
Alma mater Delhi University
LSE
Religion Islam

Najeeb Jung (born 18 January 1951) is the 20th and current Lieutenant Governor of Delhi of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. He joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1973 and worked in Madhya Pradesh and with the Government of India. He was the 13th Vice-Chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islamia, a central university in Delhi, from 2009 to 2013.[1]

Education

Jung was born and raised in Delhi, where he attended St.Columba's School, New Delhi. He then did his BA (Hons) and MA in History from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, University of Delhi. He later completed his education in London, where he did M.Sc in Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries from the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.[2][3][4]

Career

Jung joined Indian Administrative Service in 1973 and was encadered into the Madhya Pradesh cadre. He served as Joint Secretary to Government of India in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas from year 1994 to 1999.[5] He resigned from the service in 1999.[6]

He later served as a Senior Energy Specialist at the Asian Development Bank, as Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, University of Oxford and as Director for Energy Research at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi.[2]

He has published several monographs and reports on the energy sector and is a regular contributor to national newspapers on education and social issues.[7] He was the Chairman of a Core Committee of Vice-Chancellors appointed by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (India) to examine various aspects of higher education, Chairman of a Committee to review the existing schemes for enhancing participation of minorities in higher education, Member of the Special Task Force set up by the Ministry of Home Affairs (India) to suggest developmental options for the Jammu region of the State of Jammu and Kashmir, Member of the Senate of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, (IITK) and several other Committees at the national level.[8]

He quit the service in 1995 after his stint as joint secretary (exploration) in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (India).[9] Jung played a crucial role in the privatization of ONGC's Panna-Mukta oilfield that went to a consortium of Reliance-ONGC and British Gas. Jung also had a stint in the Asian Development Bank. Later, he became director, energy research, in Reliance-run Observer Research Foundation.[2] In 2009 September, he became the Vice Chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islamia.[2] In October 2010 he endorsed the judgement of Allahabad High Court on Babri Masjid Ram Janmabhoomi suit.[10]

As lieutenant governor

In July 2013, he became the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, replacing another former IAS officer Tejendra Khanna.[3] Since taking office Jung has been involved in an on-going jurisdictional dispute with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the head of the Delhi Legislative Assembly. Although Delhi is a union territory it has its own organic act, National Capital Territory of Delhi Act (1992), and its own legislature, The Chief Minister and the Lt. Governor have not been able to interpret the operating rules in the same way. Jung has been accused by current ruling party of Delhi, AAP, of being a puppet of the Central Government.[11][12]

References

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http://delhi.gov.in/wps/wcm/connect/DoIT/delhi+govt/aboutgov/about+lt+gov

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