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JK interlocutor appointed as UGC member

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 25 2013 | 4:04 AM IST

An eminent Economist, Ansari was one of the first Information Commissioners to be appointed at Central Information Commission in October, 2005.

After serving for a period for five years at the transparency panel, he was appointed as one of the three interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir by the Home Ministry.

"The Central Government appoints Prof M M Ansari, Economist, former CIC and interlocutor for Jammu and Kashmir, Government of India, as a member of the University Grants Commission with immediate effect, for a term of three years or till further order, whichever is earlier," the order said.

60-year old Ansari has served several institutions in senior positions and provided research and consultancy service to national and international organisations, the government had said in a statement on his appointment as interlocutor.

  

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First Published: Aug 16 2012 | 8:35 PM IST

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