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Amitabh Mattoo appointed as advisor to J&K CM

| | Aug 22, 2015, at 02:25 am
Srinagar, Aug 21 (IBNS) Jammu and Kashmir State Government has appointed academician and Jammu University's former vice chancellor Amitabh Mattoo as advisor to the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.

"Professor Amitabh Mattoo, former vice chancellor of Jammu University, is hereby appointed as the advisor to the chief minister with status  cabinet minister," said a government order issued here.

Mattoo was the director of the prestigious India-Australia Institute till recently.

Mattoo, a member of the minority Kashmir Pandit community, had his early education in Burn Hall School, Srinagar and the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

He earned a D. Phil in International Relations from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, writing a history of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Mattoo qualified for the Indian Police Service in 1987 through the combined civil service exam but preferred a career in academics.

 

(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)

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