Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa (born 1944) was the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, a state in

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, served August 2016. A retired

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officer of the 1968 batch, he ended his career as Chief Secretary of

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Education

He did M.A. in Economics from the

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. Earlier Rajkhowa finished his schooling from Jorhat Government High School, Intermediate in Arts from J.B. College, Jorhat, and B.A. (Hons.) in Economics from Cotton College, Guwahati.

Writings

He was appointed the Governor of

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on 12 May 2015. While on deputation to the National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd (NTPC),

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, a Government of India Public Sector Enterprise, he guided and supervised the publication of the "Do's & Don't's" and was also the Chairman of the Editorial Board of the journal titled ''"Sachetak"''. Mr Rajkhowa also authored a book, ''Central Vigilance Mechanism with special reference to P.S.E's'', besides contributing a number of articles to leading newspapers. The major work of Mr Rajkhowa, which earned him accolade from historians, scholars, intellectuals, military experts and the general readers, is ''Generalissimo Chilarai and his times'', a historical biography on the legendary Koch king Chilarai. Rajkhowa's other influential work was his second historical biography called ''Sankardeva: His life preachings & practices''. The book's topic was Srimanta Sankardeva, a cultural and religious figure of Assamese history.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rajkhowa, Jyoti Prasad 1944 births Living people Delhi School of Economics alumni Writers from Assam Indian editors Cotton College, Guwahati alumni Governors of Arunachal Pradesh Indian Administrative Service officers