Before IAS Before being appointed an
IAS officer, Vohra served as lecturer in the
Panjab University. as
Union Home Secretary,
Union Defence Secretary,
Union Defence Production Secretary,
additional secretary in the
Department of Defence of the
Ministry of Defence,
joint secretary in the
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and as an area organiser in the
Cabinet Secretariat in the
Government of India. he assumed the office of
Home Secretary on 1April1993, his first act as the governor of J&K was to rescind the controversial
Amarnath shrine land transfer order. Vohra was reappointed the
governor of Jammu and Kashmir by the president of India in 2013. Vohra retired from the position of governor in August2018 and was replaced by
Satya Pal Malik, a
Bharatiya Janata Party politician and a former
governor of the state of
Bihar. Vohra ruled Jammu and Kashmir directly four times (
governor's rule) during his tenure as governor, with his tenure as state governor being widely seen to be a positive one. == Awards and recognition ==