Jawhar Sircar Height, Age, Wife, Family, Biography

Bio/Wiki
Profession	Retired Indian Administrative Services officer, Politician, Public Intellectual Speaker, Writer
Physical Stats
Height (approx.)	5' 10" (178 cm)
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Gray
Civil Service
Service	1975-2016
Cadre	West Bengal
Year	1975
Major Designation(s)	• Jawhar has held several postings including director of industries, before moving to the government of India in the Ministry of Commerce. • Returned to the West Bengal government (1992) • Set up the new Food Processing Industries Department, West Bengal Government • Moved to the Finance Department as Special Secretary, West Bengal Government • Served as the Commissioner of Commercial Taxes • Appointed as the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal and successfully conducted the 1998 and 1999 parliamentary elections (1997) • Appointed as the Principal Secretary of the Commerce & Industries Department by Buddhadev Bhattacharjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal (2000) • Promoted as Additional Secretary and Development Commissioner for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) (2006) • Elevated as Secretary to the Government of India, and moved on to head India’s Culture Ministry (2008) • Appointed as the Secretary for Information and Broadcasting Ministry (2009) • Appointed as the CEO of India’s public broadcaster (2012) • Resigned as the head of India’s public broadcaster (2016)
Politics
Political Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Political Journey	• Elected to the Rajya Sabha on a TMC ticket to represent the state of West Bengal (2 August 2021) • Member, the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (2022) • Member, Joint Committee on the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill (2023) • Resigned as an MP from the Rajya Sabha (September 2024)
Awards, Honours, Achievements	• Best CEO Award (Two years after joining PB) (2013) • Maulana Jameel Ilyasi Excellency Award (August 2013) • News Television Network CEO of the Year ENBA 2013 Award • Corporate Broadcaster of the Year, Award by Calcutta Management Association • Placed among the 10 most important people in the broadcasting industry by the Digital Studio Broadcasting & Production Magazine (2015)
Personal Life
Date of Birth	22 March 1952 (Saturday)
Age (as of 2024)	72 Years
Birthplace	Calcutta, West Bengal (now Kolkata)
Zodiac sign	Aries
Nationality	Indian
Hometown	Kolkata, West Bengal
School	St. Xavier's Collegiate School, Kolkata
College/University	• University of Cambridge, England • University of Sussex, England • University of Calcutta, West Bengal • Presidency University, Kolkata
Educational Qualification	• M. A. (History) Educated at Calcutta University, Kolkata (West Bengal) • B.A. (Hons.) in Political Science degree from Presidency College, Kolkata
Religion	Hinduism
Social Media	• Instagram • Facebook • YouTube • Twitter • LinkedIn
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Married
Marriage Date	27 November 1977
Family
Wife/Spouse	Nandita Sircar
Children	Son- 1
Parents	Father- Nil Ratan Sircar (deceased) Mother- Namita Sircar (deceased)
Money Factor
Income	Rs. 24,54,815 (Rs. 24.5 lakhs) (for the financial year 2019 - 2020)
Assets/Properties (as of 2021)	Movable Assets • Cash: Rs. 49,800 • Deposits in Banks, Financial Institutions and Non-Banking Financial Companies: Rs. 1,66,80,557 • Bonds, Debentures and Shares in companies: Rs. 62,64,042 • NSS, Postal Savings etc: Rs. 22,70,958 • Motor Vehicles: Rs. 8,20,203 • Jewellery: Rs. 4,72,500 Immovable Assets • Residential Buildings: Rs. 40,57,200
Net Worth (as of 2021)	Rs. 3,06,15,260 (Rs. 3.06 crore)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Jawhar Sircar

• Between 1997 and 2005, Jawhar organized several film and media-related programmes at the Kolkata International Film Festival.

• Jawhar was Vice President of the All India Tennis Association.

• Jawhar is a vocal critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his policies.

• During the early years of the Kolkata Book Fair, Jawhar played an important role in handling the world’s largest Book Fair, in terms of attendance.

• Jawhar has Led the Indian delegation to UN bodies such as UNESCO, UNIDO, and the World Heritage Committee and also to global forums like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and ASEM.

• Jawhar is a life member of well-known institutions like the Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists, & Cultural Heritage, Bangiya Sahitya Parishad, Indian History Congress, and Asiatic Society, a 240-year-old institution.

• Jawhar was described as ‘the most distinguished and knowledgeable civil servant’ by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh.

• Jawhar has delivered academic lectures at foreign universities, like Heidelberg, Bonn, Auckland, Wellington, Ljubljana, Budapest, Brasilia, Melbourne, Dushanbe, etc.

• Jawhar was the Vice-President of the Indian Lawn Tennis Association from 2010 to 2013.

• Jawhar served as a Trustee Member of PSBT (Public Service Broadcasting Trust) from 2012 to 2016.

• While performing his administrative duties, Jawhar was also active in research. For several years, he has published numerous articles on cultural, historical, and anthropological subjects and research papers on history, culture, media, and society.

• Due to his disagreements with the NDA government, Jawhar resigned from the post of CEO of Prasar Bharati in 2016. He was appointed to the post by the UPA government in 2012.

• In 2019, Jawhar had the honour of delivering the First Jamshed Bhaba Memorial Lecture at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai.
  

  Jawhar Sircar talking about the status of the arts in India at the National Centre for the Performing Arts

• Jawhar has co-authored books like The Construction of the Hindu Identity in Medieval Western Bengal: The Role of Popular Cults (2005) and Festivals of Bengal (in Bengali as Tero Parbaner Itikatha, 2022).

• Jawhar resigned as a Member of Parliament from the Rajya Sabha because he was dissatisfied with his own party All India Trinamool Congress over the handling of R.G. Kar rape-murder incident. He wrote a letter to Mamata Banerjee announcing his decision to resign as MP in which he said,
  

  I have suffered patiently for a month since the terrible incident at R.G. Kar Hospital and was hoping for your direct intervention with the agitating junior doctors, in the old style of Mamata Banerjee. It has not happened and the ever punitive steps that government is taking now are too little and quite late,”

• Jawhar has presided over International Conferences and Meetings of the Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (as CEO, Prasar Bharati) in Seoul, Macau, Istanbul, and Fiji.