Background
Jung was born and raised in Delhi, where he attended Street.Columba"s School, New Delhi.
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Jung was born and raised in Delhi, where he attended Street.Columba"s School, New Delhi.
Jung was born and raised in Delhi, where he attended Street.Columba"s School, New Delhi. He then did his Bachelor (Honours) and Master of Arts in History from Saint Stephen"s College, Delhi, University of Delhi. He later completed his education in London, where he did M.Sc in Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries from the London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom.
He joined the Indian Administrative Service (Institute for Advanced Study ) in 1973 and worked in Madhya Pradesh and with the Government of India. He was the 13th Vice-Chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islamia, a central university in Delhi, from 2009 to 2013. Jung joined Indian Administrative Service in 1973 and was encadered into the Madhya Pradesh cadre.
He served as Joint Secretary to Government of India in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas from year 1994 to 1999.
He resigned from the service in 1999. He 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.
He has published several monographs and reports on the energy sector and is a regular contributor to national newspapers on education and social issues. He quit the service in 1995 after his stint as joint secretary (exploration) in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (India).
Jung played a crucial role in the privatization of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation"s Panna-Mukta oilfield that went to a consortium of Reliance-Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and British Gas.
Jung also had a stint in the Asian Development Bank. Later, he became director, energy research, in Reliance-run Observer Research Foundation. In 2009 September, he became the Vice Chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islamia.
In October 2010 he endorsed the judgement of Allahabad High Court on Babri Masjid Ram Janmabhoomi suit.
In July 2013, he became the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, replacing another former Institute for Advanced Study officer Tejendra Khanna. Since taking office Jung has been involved in an on-going jurisdictional dispute with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the head of the Delhi Legislative Assembly.
Although Delhi is a union territory it has its own organic act, National Capital Territory of Delhi Acting (1992), and its own legislature, The Chief Minister and the Lieutenant Governor have not been able to interpret the operating rules in the same way.
Jung has been accused by current ruling party of Delhi, Alumni Admissions Program, of being a puppet of the Central Government.
He was the Chairman of a Core Committee of Vice-Chancellors appointed by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (India) to examine various aspects of higher education, Chairman of a Committee to review the existing schemes for enhancing participation of minorities in higher education, Member of the Special Task Force set up by the Ministry of Home Affairs (India) to suggest developmental options for the Jammu region of the State of Jammu and Kashmir, Member of the Senate of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, (IITK) and several other Committees at the national level