Education
Vohra was educated at Punjab and Oxford Universities, and served in the Institute for Advanced Study between 1959 and 1994.
Vohra was educated at Punjab and Oxford Universities, and served in the Institute for Advanced Study between 1959 and 1994.
He took over from South K Sinha on June 25, 2008. He is the first civilian governor of Jammu and Kashmir in 18 years after Jagmohan. 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.
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. North. North. North. North. North. North.; Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi North. North. North.
He served as Principal Secretary to Prime Minister I.K. Gujral in 1997-1998 and was a member of the National Security Advisory Board from 1998 to 2001 when the NDA government was in power.