Before this appointment he has served as:

• Member of NHRC for 3 years in the rank of a Judge of the Supreme Court
• Secretary-General, Rajya Sabha from 1981 to 1993. As a part of it he participated in several Parliamentary Conferences and International Goodwill delegations around the world.
• The President of the Delhi Gymkhana Club, the premier social club in the capital during 1986-1988.
• Trustee of the Amity Business School, a Cultural Centre, known as the Sanskriti Pratishthan and Rotary Service to Humanity Awards Trust which gives an Award of Rs. 2 lakhs each year for outstanding work in the field of community service, vocational excellence and promotion of international understanding.
• Chairman of the Uttarakhand State Red Cross Society and State Child Welfare Council.
• Past President of the Rotary Club of Delhi. He served Rotary International as District Governor, Director, Member and Chairman of several Rotary International Committees. He is the recipient of the Rotary Foundation's citation for Meritorious Service and Rotary Foundation Distinguished Service Award for his support of its international humanitarian and educational programmes. He has served as Chairman of Rotary Foundation (India) from 1992 till 2002.

Among other things he has been vigorously contributing to the field of Social Service which includes:

• Setting up of a state-of-the-art voluntary Blood Bank in Delhi at a cost of over Rs. five crores.
• A Foundation to provide scholarships to bright, poor students for professional courses for which he has already raised over Rs. 8 crores till now. 70 students are receiving a scholarship of over Rs. 25,000 each year under this venture.
• Setting up a boarding school for bright girls from impoverished families of Uttarakhand. The school will be free for these girls and will be funded out of interest earned on the corpus funds.