Thapa appointed security advisor of Prime Minister

May 30, 2006
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Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has appointed retired defense secretary and former election commissioner Ramesh Jung Thapa as his Advisor for Administration and Defense.

This is the first time a separate advisor has been appointed to look after security matters since the restoration of democracy in 1990.

Thapa was defense secretary for three years during the first elected government. PM Koirala looked after the defense ministry portfolio at the time. Thapa served as election commissioner for five and half years after that until he reached 65 years of age.

Thapa, who did his MA from Kashi University, India, and received other higher education in Britain and France on a UNESCO Fellowship in 1965 and a Rockefeller Third Fund Fellowship in 1967 from the USA.