62 year old Former CBI Director, Ashwani Kumar on 9 March 2013 appointed as Governor of Nagaland.
Ashwani
Kumar was the Director of the agency from August 2008 to November 2010.
He will be the first head of the agency to be appointed as a Governor.
With
the appointment of Ashwani Kumar Former Delhi Police Commissioner
Nikhil Kumar, who was serving as Governor of Nagaland, has been
transferred and appointed as Governor of Kerala for the remainder of his
tenure. 72-year-old Nikhil Kumar is a 1963-batch IPS officer, who was
appointed as Governor of Nagaland on 15 October 2009.
Other appointments
• With the appointment of
Ashwani Kumar as governor of Nagaland, President Pranab Mukherjee also
transferred Governor of Tripura D Y Patil to Bihar and shifted Bihar
Governor Devanand Konwar to Tripura for the remainder of their five-year
terms,
• Four time Chief Minister of Nagaland and former Governor
of Goa, Maharashtra and Gujarat, 81-year-old SC Jamir was appointed as
Governor of Odhisa.
• SC Jamir succeds 84-year-old M C Bhandare who
had been appointed as Governor in August 2007 and was continuing even
after his term had expired last year.
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