IAS (1973 batch) bana l.governor Najeeb Jung, the newly-appointed lieutenant governor of the Indian capital, is set to take charge Tuesday of a city faced with a number of issues ranging from women’s safety to development. The lieutenant governor is in charge of Delhi’s police, city planning, development and education. He is appointed by the President of India and serves for five years. In the role, Mr. Jung will be the representative of the president and act on the advice of ministers of state, according to information on Delhi lieutenant governor’s website. His appointment comes just months before Delhi goes to polls to vote in a new state government. Born in Delhi in 1951, Mr. Jung studied history at the Delhi University and later attended the London School of Economics in the U.K. A former bureaucrat, Mr. Jung, 62, has worked as a district magistrate in the central state of Madhya Pradesh and as managing director of two public sector companies. He has also been joint secretary in the federal ministry of petroleum and natural gas in the capital. He has headed several government committees including one investigating the state of higher education in the country and also worked as director on the board of India’s central bank. Mr. Jung was a senior adviser at the Asian Development Bank in Manila and a research scholar at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies in the U.K. before returning to India to take up the role of vice chancellor at the well regarded Jamia Milia Islamia University in Delhi in 2009. He has published several reports on the energy sector and writes regularly for national daily newspapers on education and social issues. In his new position as the lieutenant governor, Mr. Jung will have direct control over the Delhi police, serve as chancellor of Delhi’s state universities and be responsible for infrastructure development in the capital as head of the Delhi Development Authority, a government agency overseeing the construction of residential projects. Among his top priorities will be “security of women and expansion of Delhi,” Mr. Jung said in an interview to The Hindustan Times before taking up his appointment. “Improvement in the quality of policing will give confidence to women,” he said in the interview. On his expansion plans for Delhi, Mr. Jung said there was a need to “handle the great influx of population”. “Delhi has done quite well compared to other cities,” he said, but added that, “structural safety is a major concern.” The Wall Street Journal’s requests for an interview with Mr. Jung were turned down.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 04:54:17 +0000
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