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Vijai Kapoor

Indian civil servant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ16730581 ↗
Source-derived summary

Vijai Kapoor is a former IAS officer and was Lieutenant Governor of Delhi from 20 April 1998 to 9 June 2004. Currently he is director at Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited.

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“Vijai Kapoor” enters the record as indian civil servant. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Vijai, Kapoor and Indian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Vijai, Kapoor and Indian.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16730581. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1998 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “Vijai Kapoor” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.