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 नरेंद्र नाथ वोहरा
narinder nath vohra

narinder nath vohra -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- n. n. vohra -rrb- -lrb- born may 5 , 1936 -rrb- is the current governor of the indian state of jammu and kashmir .
he took over from s k sinha on june 25 , 2008 .
he is the first civilian governor of jammu and kashmir in 18 years after jagmohan .
vohra was educated at punjab and oxford universities , and served in the ias between 1959 and 1994 .
he served as principal secretary to prime minister i.k. gujral in 1997-98 and was a member of the national security advisory board from 1998 to 2001 when the nda government was in power .
he also headed the national task force on internal security and co-chaired the india-european union round table in 2001 .
in between , he also served as director of the india international centre and was chairman of the idsa review committee .
for his service to the nation , vohra was awarded the padma vibhushan in 2007 .
since february 2003 until he became the governor , vohra had been the indian government 's interlocutor in kashmir .
as such he 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 .
his first major action was to withdraw the controversial amarnath shrine land transfer order .
