Event time:
Monday, March 4, 2019 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Location:
Henry R. Luce Hall (LUCE ), 202
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT
06511
Event description:
Dr. Shah Faesal (Urdu: شاہ فیصل, born 17 May 1983) is a former Indian civil servant from Jammu and Kashmir. In 2009, he became the first Kashmiri to top the Indian Civil Services Examination and the first candidate from Kashmir in several years to be selected to the Indian Administrative Service through open merit. He resigned from IAS on 9th January 2019 citing alleged unabated killings in Kashmir.
He was the first Kashmiri to top the Indian Civil Services Examination in 2009. He holds an MBBS degree from Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences’SKIMS, Srinagar.
Shah Faesal