Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary (born 1947) is an Indian politician who was the
Governor of Meghalaya, a state in northeast India, from 2008 to 2013 (1 July 2008 to 6 July 2013).
Previously he was an IPS officer, director-general of
National Security Guards
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(NSG) and the
Border Security Force
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(BSF).
Early life and education
Mooshahary hails from the
Bodo Bodo may refer to:
Ethnicity
* Boro people, an ethno-linguistic group mainly from Northwest Assam, India
* Bodo-Kachari people, an umbrella group from Nepal, India and Bangladesh that includes the Bodo people
Culture and language
* Boro cu ...
community.
He was born in the village Odlaguri near Gossiagaon subdivision in
Kokrajhar district
Kokrajhar district is an administrative district in Bodoland Territorial Region of Assam. It is predominantly inhabited by the Boro tribe. The district has its headquarters located at Kokrajhar Town and occupies an area of . It has two civil s ...
, now under the
Bodoland Territorial Areas Districts, of
Assam
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. He completed his pre-university study in Union Christian College, Umiam and then graduated from
St Anthonys College, Shillong with honours in Political Science.
Career
Mooshahary became an
IPS
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* Induced pluripotent stem cell or iPS cells
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officer of the 1967 batch and was allotted the
Kerala
Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...
cadre. He worked on important assignments in Kerala and early on in his career in 1981-82 was commissioner of police of the city of Cochin. Later he held the offices of Inspector General of Police and chief of Crime Branch CID and lastly Director general of the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau.
Apart from Kerala, Mooshahary has occupied several distinguished posts. He was in the Cabinet Secretariat and had served in the state of Assam, including at a later point in his career in this province's police force. He served in the federal Central Reserve Police Force as Deputy Inspector general and Inspector General during the late eighties and early nineties during which period he served in the states of Tamil Nadu, Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan. He was appointed Director General of the elite
National Security Guards
The National Security Guard (NSG), commonly known as Black Cats, is a counter-terrorism unit of India under the Ministry of Home Affairs. It was founded on 16 October 1984, following Operation Blue Star, for combating terrorist activities and p ...
(NSG) in February 2002.
He headed the NSG for nearly three years before being shifted as Director General of the
BSF, one of the largest standing paramilitary border guarding forces in the world, in 2005.
He was the first IPS officer from northeast India to be appointed the Director-General of the BSF, a position he held till his retirement from active service in February 2006. Mooshahary was awarded the Police Medal for Meritorious Service and the President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service. He has also served in the
CRPF
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, besides the state police force of Assam and has done a commendable job in combating terrorism, and contributing to the security of the Republic of India.
In March 2006, Mooshahary was appointed by the Governor of Assam as the first Chief Information Commissioner of the State under the
Right to Information Act
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enacted by the
Parliament of India
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, a legislation aimed at bringing transparency in Government. He was instrumental in operationalising the legislation and setting in motion the legal processes of redressal mandated therein and held this position up to his elevation to Governorship of Meghalaya State by the
President of India
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for a 5-year term in 2008.
See also
*
Government of Meghalaya
The Government of Meghalaya also known as the State Government of Meghalaya, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Meghalaya and its 11 districts. It consists of an executive, led by the Governor of Meghalaya, a judiciary a ...
*
Governors of Meghalaya
References
External links
Bio-data of His Excellency Shri Ranjit Shekhar MooshaharyGovt.
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of
Meghalaya
Meghalaya (, or , meaning "abode of clouds"; from Sanskrit , "cloud" + , "abode") is a states and union territories of India, state in northeastern India. Meghalaya was formed on 21 January 1972 by carving out two districts from the state of As ...
website.
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1947 births
Living people
People from Kokrajhar district
Bodo people
Indian police officers
Governors of Meghalaya