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Vinai Kumar Saxena appointed Lieutenant Governor of Delhi

Saxena is ex-chairman of Khadi commission

Vinai Kumar Saxena | Twitter/ANI Vinai Kumar Saxena | Twitter/ANI

Vinai Kumar Saxena, former chairman of Khadi and Village Industries Commission, was appointed the new Lieutenant Governor, days after Anil Baijal resigned from the post.

“The President of India has been pleased to appoint Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena to be the Lt. Governor of National Capital Territory of Delhi with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office,” a press communique from the President's secretariat said.

The communique said the President has accepted Baijal's resignation.

Saxena, who started his career as an assistant officer with JK Group in Rajasthan in 1984, is a well-known name in the Indian corporate and social sector. In 1991, Saxena founded an NGO named National Council for Civil Liberties.

In October 2015, he was appointed the chairman of KVIC where he implemented a number of innovative employment-generation schemes. In just seven years, 40 lakh new jobs were created while the turnover of KVIC grew by a massive 248 per cent.

Baijal, a 1969-batch IAS officer, quit the post on Wednesday citing “personal reasons”. He had been appointed as the 21st Lieutenant Governor of Delhi in December 2016 after the sudden resignation of Najeeb Jung.

Baijal's over five-year tenure was marked by frequent run-ins with the AAP dispensation over administrative jurisdiction and governance-related issues, including one in which Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his ministers staged a dharna at the LG office in 2018.

In Delhi, three subjects—land, services and law and order—directly come under the purview of the Lieutenant Governor. The matter regarding control over the services department is still in the Supreme Court.

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