Governor Urmila Singh administered oath of allegiance, office and secrecy to K.S. Tomar as Chairman of Himachal Pradesh Public Service Commission in a simple ceremony held at Raj Bhawan here today.
Tomar, who had worked with many pretigious national daily, started his journalistic career from Himachal Times at Shimla in 1979 and contributed in The Tribune from 1980 to 1983. Tomar joined Hindustan Times as Staff Correspondent at Amritsar in May, 1983 when terrorism was at its peak in Punjab and covered Operation Blue Star. He got transferred to Shimla as State Correspondent HT in 1986 and was posted at Kathmandu (Nepal) in 1992 and in 1998 Tomar was transferred to Jaipur (Rajasthan) as Bureau Chief of Hindustan Times. Before this assignment, Tomar was working as Editor of Hindustan Times, Rajasthan Edition.
Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, Irrigation and Public Health Minister Vidya Stokes, Health and Family Welfare Minister Kaul Singh Thakur, Agriculture Minister Sujan Singh Pathania, Forest Minister Thakur Singh Bharmouri, Industries Minister Mukesh Agnihotri, newly elected Member of Parliament Pratibha Singh, Chief Parliamentary Secretaries Nand Lal, Sohan Lal and Inder Dutt Lakhanpal, Mayor, M.C. Shimla Sanjay Chauhan, Deputy Mayor Tikender Panwar, MLA Balbir Thakur, Chairman, 20-Point Programme Ram Lal Thakur, Chairman, H.P. Board of School Education, Dharamshala, Balbir Tegta, Vice Chairman, HRTC, Kewal Singh Pathania, former Speaker, H.P. Vidhan Sabha G. R. Musafir, Vice Chancellor, H.P. University Prof. A.D.N. Bajpai, Members of H.P. Public Service Commission D.C. Katoch, Prof. J.C. Sharma and J.P. Singh, former Chairman, H.P. Public Service Commission R.R. Verma other dignitaries and senior officers of State Government were also present on the occasion.
