1. Najeeb Jung was born on 18 January 1951 and is a retired Indian Administrative Service officer who served as the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Delhi from July 2013 to December 2016.
13 Facts About Najeeb Jung
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Najeeb Jung previously served as the 13th Vice-Chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islamia from 2009 to 2013.
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Najeeb Jung's grandparents served as the chief justice and chief engineer in the court of the last Nizam of Hyderabad.
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Najeeb Jung then did his BA and MA in History from St Stephen's College, Delhi, University of Delhi.
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Najeeb Jung later studied at the London School of Economics and was awarded Master of Science in Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries from University of London.
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Najeeb Jung joined Indian Administrative Service in 1973 and was encadered into the Madhya Pradesh cadre.
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Najeeb Jung served as Private Secretary to Madhavrao Scindia, Minister for Railways and had been Director in Government of India in the Ministry of Steel.
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Najeeb Jung later served as Joint Secretary to Government of India in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas from year 1994 to 1999.
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Najeeb Jung 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.
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Najeeb Jung has published several monographs and reports on the energy sector and is a regular contributor to national newspapers on education and social issues.
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Najeeb Jung quit the service in 1999 after his stint as joint secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
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Najeeb 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.
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Since taking office Najeeb Jung had been involved in an ongoing jurisdictional dispute with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the head of the Delhi Legislative Assembly.