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| name = Dr. Masud Ahmed Choudhary
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| birth_date = 10 April 1944
| birth_place = [[Poonch district, India|Poonch]] [[Jammu and Kashmir (princely state)|Jammu & Kashmir]], [[India]]
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| children = Arafat Masud, Naziya Choudhary,Yasmin Choudhary
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'''Masud Choudhary''' (born 10 April 1944) is a prominent educator, social reformer, thinker and administrator<ref>[http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2011/Mar/14/cop-turned-academic-14.asp "Cop Turned Academic"] 14 March 2011, Greater Kashmir</ref> of Jammu and Kashmir State. He is the founding Vice Chancellor of Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University in Rajouri.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://earlytimesnews.com/newsdet.aspx?q=10278 | title=Masud gets unprecedented reception on getting second term | date=19 February 2017 | work=Early Times | accessdate=8 May 2018}}</ref> He is also the Chief Patron of the Gurjar Desh Charitable Trust.<ref>[http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/11jan04/state.htm#10] 11 Jan 2011, Daily Excelsior</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://javaidrahi.wordpress.com/2018/01/28/gojri-books-in-pdf-free-download-here/|title=Gojri Books |publisher=Books on Gujjars}}</ref>

==Early life==
Born in a middle-class Bajar [[Gujjar]] family in Kala Ban, a village near Loc in [[Poonch district, India|Poonch]] in [[Jammu and Kashmir (princely state)|Jammu and Kashmir]] Masud Choudhary's father, Babu Faiz Ahmed [[Gujjar]] was also a prominent educator.<ref>[http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/11feb17/state.htm "Tributes paid to Faiz"] 16 February 2011, Daily Excelsior</ref>

==Police career==
As a Law Graduate from Aligarh Muslim University, he began his career in Jammu and Kashmir Police as a Deputy Superintendent of Police in 1967. He served in a number of assignments, as the [[Superintendent of Police (India)|District Police Chief]] of Jammu, Poonch, Kathua, Udhampur including [[Senior Superintendent of Police]], Srinagar in Kashmir and also as SSP Vigilance Jammu and CID SB Jammu. As [[Deputy Inspector General of Police]] he was posted [[Deputy inspector general of police|DIG]] Vigilance J&K,DIG Jammu-Kathua range; DIG Administration PHQ; Director Police Academy, Udhampur; [[Inspector General of Police]], Crime and Railway; and, [[Additional Director General of Police|Additional Director General Police]] in Jammu and Kashmir. He became the first [[Gujjar]] of Jammu and Kashmir to rise to the rank of [[Additional Director General of Police]] in [[Indian Police Service]] in 2002. His last position was as Additional Director General, Headquarters.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030725/j&k.htm#1 |title=The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Jammu & Kashmir |publisher=Tribuneindia.com |accessdate=2012-06-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110506071918/http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030725/j%26k.htm |archivedate=2011-05-06 }}</ref> He retired from the [[Indian Police Service|IPS]] in 2004.

== Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University ==
Choudhary is the founder [[Vice-Chancellor]]<ref>[http://www.risingkashmir.com/news/bgsbu-safe-in-hamal’s-hands-masud-5182.aspx "BGSBU safe in Hamal’s hands"] 8 January 2011, Rising Kashmir News</ref> of [[Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University]] located in the border district of Rajouri, 150 km from [[Jammu]].<ref name=univ>{{cite web|url=http://www.bgsbuniversity.org |title=University web site |publisher=Bgsbuniversity.org |date=2012-06-21 |accessdate=2012-06-29}}</ref> The university came into existence by an Act of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly in 2002.<ref name=univ/>

In 2012, the university awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters for his extraordinary contributions to Indian society, especially in the fields of education and social development.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.greaterjammu.com/2012/20121230/editorial.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2014-02-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304040850/http://www.greaterjammu.com/2012/20121230/editorial.html |archivedate=2014-03-04 }} 08 February 2014, Greater Jammu</ref> The Community has celebrated this honour across the State of Jammu and Kashmir.<ref>[http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/taj-felicitates-masud-choudhary/] 8 February 2014, Daily Excelsior</ref>

==Contributions==
Choudhary set up the Gurjar Desh Charitable Trust in Jammu in 1989, a voluntary organization established with the objective of improving the condition of the tribal and marginalised community of Jammu and Kashmir. His efforts have won national and international recognition. Other aims of this trust are Preservation, documentation and publication of tribal rare unwritten medicinal and other herbal knowledge, documentation of the tribal cultural heritage and suggesting ways and means of preserving and promoting it, making a study of the tribal handicrafts and undertaking measures to revive and boost their handicrafts. Making such exercise income-oriented, giving boost to social and cultural activities by organizing cultural meets besides development of tribal arts and artifacts.<ref>[http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/11jan04/state.htm#10 "Masud lifetime Chief Patron of GDCT"] 3 January 2011, Daily Excelsior</ref>

==Awards==
* Police Medal for Meritorious Service (1985)
* Presidents Police Medal for Distinguished Service(1994).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.jkpolice.gov.in/about-jammu-kashmir-police/PPMDS.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304084454/http://www.jkpolice.gov.in/about-jammu-kashmir-police/PPMDS.htm |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* Sher-e-Kashmir Police Medal for Distinguished Service.
* Fakhar-e-Qoum by Adabi Sangat Kashmir.

==References==
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==External links==
* '' [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyOkptG3fCwn7loqai_Dz7A Masud Choudhary on YouTube]''
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z-Hdhr9wUk&t=89s Gojri Interview of Dr. MASUD A. CHAUDHARY on YouTube]
*[http://www.bgsbuniversity.org/ Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri]
*[https://javaidrahi.wordpress.com/2018/01/28/gojri-books-in-pdf-free-download-here/ Gujjars of Jammu and Kashmir]
*[http://www.gurjardesh.org/photogallery/index.htm Gurjardesh Charitable Trust]
*[http://www.jkpolice.gov.in]

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