Friday, February 4, 2011

Re: [HumJanenge] Wajahat Habibullah is new minority body chief - Tired but never retired

YES DEAR JAM YOU ARE CORRECT THAT MR. WAZAHAT IS NOT RETIRED.
I WISH HIM LONG LIFE
REGARDS
DR. JN SHARMA

On 2/4/11, C K Jam <rtiwanted@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Tired but never retired !
> Sir, I thought you were looking forward to riding in your farm in Barabanki.
>
> http://www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-139613.html
>
> Wajahat Habibullah is new minority body chief
> New Delhi, Feb 3 : The country's first Chief Information Commissioner
> Wajahat
> Habibullah took over as the new chairman of the National Commission for
> Minorities here.
> He fills a vacancy caused by the expiry of Mohammad Shafi Qureshi's term in
> September last year.
>
> A former Jammu and Kashmir cadre IAS officer, Mr Habibullah had served as
> Chief Information Commissioner under the Right to Information Act.
>
> Mr Habibullah,66, will hold the office for a period of three years from
> today.
>
> Mr Habibullah, who retired as the CIC in September last year, is also now on
> the
> World Bank's first 3-member appeals board set up for public scrutiny of its
> dealings, with a 2-year stint.
>
> He held a meeting of the commission after taking over and also met the
> senior
> officers of the NCM.
>
> Delhi-based English language poet and author Keki N Daruwala (73), a retired
> 1958 batch IPS officer, becomes a member of the NCM.
>
> The Commission, a statutory body for safeguarding constitutional and legal
> rights of minorities, has now the full bench of the chairman, vice-chairman
> and
> five other members.
>
> Mizoram-based Dr H T Sengliana (67), a former MP and retired IPS officer, is
> the
> vice-chairman.
>
> Other members are: Former Congress MP from Punjab H S Hanspal (72), Ladakh
> Hill Council member Spaizes Angmo, Mumbai-based author Syeda Bilgrami Imam,
> an
> award-winning advertising professional, and Vinod Sharma, a journalist of
> Hindustan Times.
>
>
>

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