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Shri Jagmohan is certainly one of the topmost civil servants cum statesmen that the country has produced in the post-independence period. The only person who has held the office of Lt. Governor of Delhi twice, of Governor of Jammu and Kashmir twice and nationally honoured twice by the award of Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan, he has also been a distinguished member of Parliament for fourteen years and a Union Cabinet Minister for five and a half years, holding charge of such significant portfolios as Communication, Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation, Culture and Tourism. Throughout his long career, he has been a model of clean public life and efficient and effective governance. A profound scholar and thinker, Shri Jagmohan has published over 500 articles in leading newspapers and journals and five books: Rebuilding Shahajahanabad: The Walled City of Delhi; Island of Truth; The Challenge of Our Cities; My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir and Soul and Structure of Governance in India. Shri Jagmohan was conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Guru Nanak University, Amritwar, as well as by Kurukshetra University. A household name in India, he formulated and carried out the historic reforms of the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine.