Gurbachan Jagat
Gurbachan Jagat | |
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Governor of Manipur | |
In office 23 July 2008 – 22 July 2013 | |
Appointed by | Pratibha Patil |
Chief Minister | Okram Ibobi Singh |
Preceded by | Shivinder Singh Sidhu |
Succeeded by | Ashwani Kumar |
Governor of Nagaland | |
Additional charge | |
In office 28 July 2009 – 14 October 2009 | |
Preceded by | K. Sankaranarayanan |
Succeeded by | Nikhil Kumar |
Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission | |
In office 1 April 2006 – 30 June 2007 | |
Preceded by | S. R. Hashim |
Succeeded by | Subir Dutta |
Director-General of Border Security Force | |
In office 30 November 2000 – 30 June 2002 | |
Preceded by | E. N. Rammohan |
Succeeded by | Ajay Raj Sharma |
Director-General of Jammu and Kashmir Police | |
In office February 1997 – December 2000 | |
Personal details | |
Born | (1942-07-01) 1 July 1942 (age 82) |
Gurbachan Singh Jagat (born 1 July 1942)[1] is a former governor of the State of Manipur in India. He was appointed to this office on 1 July 2007 and retired as the governor on 22 July 2013. Distinguished public servant Gurbachan Jagat has joined as a trustee of The Tribune, Chandigarh on 2 May 2016.
He studied English at university and became a member of the Indian Police Service in 1964 in the Union Territory (AGMUT) Cadre. He served as ACP and Addl DCP in Delhi, SP in Meghalaya during 1971 War, Commandant, BSF, SSP in Goa, Deputy Commissioner (Special Branch) and Joint Commissioner (Headquarters) in Delhi Police, DIG of Chandigarh Police, IG of BSF in Jammu Frontier HQ, IG of BSF in North Bengal Frontier HQ, ADG (Armed) of Jammu and Kashmir and as Director-General of Police in Jammu and Kashmir from February 1997 until December 2000. He was then appointed Director General of the Border Security Force, a post he held until June 2002, at which time he was appointed to the Union Public Service Commission. He served on the UPSC for five years, eighteen months as chair, until being appointed Governor of Manipur.[2][3]
See also
- Governor (India)
- List of governors of Manipur
- List of current Indian governors
- Manipur
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- Apa Pant (1954)
- Tarlok Singh (1954)
- S. P. P. Thorat (1954)
- Kewal Singh (1955)
- Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon (1957)
- Mathew Kandathil Mathulla (1959)
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- Kumar Nandan Prasad (1969)
- Sunil Kumar Bhattacharya (1970)
- Jagmohan (1971)
- Himangshu Mohan Choudhury (1972)
- Brajbir Saran Das (1972)
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- Ranjit Singh Sarkaria (1972)
- V. Krishnamurthy (1973)
- Syed Zahoor Qasim (1974)
- Ajit Chandra Chatterjee (1975)
- Krishna Prasad Dar (1975)
- Pessie Madan (1975)
- Arjan Singh (1975)
- V. S. Wakankar (1975)
- Thangam Philip (1976)
- Rangaswamy Narasimhan (1977)
- Paul Pothen (1977)
- B. V. Raju (1977)
- Madhav Gadgil (1981)
- Mohamed Zainuddin Juvale (1981)
- Narla Tata Rao (1983)
- Mohammad Hamid Ansari (1984)
- Jasdev Singh (1985)
- Anil Kumar Lakhina (1986)
- Ramesh Inder Singh (1986)
- Mohammad Izhar Alam (1987)
- Gurbachan Jagat (1987)
- Avinder Singh Brar (1988)
- Sarbdeep Singh Virk (1988)
- Kanwar Pal Singh Gill (1989)
- Ved Marwah (1989)
- Achyut Madhav Gokhale (1990)
- Mehmoodur Rehman (1991)
- Prakash Singh (1991)
- Inderjit Kaur Barthakur (1992)
- M. K. Narayanan (1992)
- J. N. Saksena (1992)
- Oudh Narayan Shrivastava (1992)
- Chewang Phunsog (1992)
- Suryadevara Ramachandra Rao (1992)
- E. Sreedharan (2001)
- Mohammad Ahmed Zaki (2001)
- Syamal Bhushan Ghosh Dastidar (2009)
- D. R. Karthikeyan (2010)
- Pranab K. Sen (2011)
- Parveen Talha (2014)
- P. V. Rajaraman (2015)
- R. Vasudevan (2015)
- Kanwal Sibal (2017)
- T. K. Viswanathan (2017)
- S. S. Rathore (2018)
- S. Jaishankar (2019)
- (Nil) (2020)
- (Nil) (2021)
- Guruprasad Mohapatra (Posthumous) (2022)
- (Nil) (2023)
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