Jomin Tayeng
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| honorific-suffix = MLA of 42-Dambuk (ST) Assembly Constituency
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| term_start = 2009
| term_end = 7 May 2013
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| successor = Gum Tayeng
| birth_date = 1 February 1944
| birth_place = Roing
| death_date = 7 May 2013
| death_place = Guwahati
| nationality = {{IND}}
| spouse = Gum Tayeng
| party = INC
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Jomin Tayeng (1 February 1944 – 7 May 2013) was an Indian bureaucrat and politician who became the first direct recruit Officer of the Indian Administrative Service from Arunachal Pradesh in 1968.{{cite news |url=http://www.arunachaltimes.in/wordpress/2013/05/09/dambuk-mla-jomin-tayeng-passes-away |title=Dambuk MLA Jomin Tayeng passes away |newspaper=Echo of Arunachal |date=8 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006123811/http://www.arunachaltimes.in/wordpress/2013/05/09/dambuk-mla-jomin-tayeng-passes-away |archivedate=6 October 2014 }}
Early life and career
In 1976 he was appointed secretary to the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh.{{cite news |url=http://www.echoofarunachal.com/?p=36759 |title=Jomin Tayeng passes away, leaves Arunachal in a state of mourning |newspaper=Echo of Arunachal |date=8 May 2013 |access-date=23 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006084550/http://www.echoofarunachal.com/?p=36759 |archive-date=6 October 2014 |url-status=dead }} After his retirement in 2004 he joined politics and contested the Dambuk constituency for the Legislative Assembly of Arunachal Pradesh as the INC candidate but was defeated. He contested the seat again in the 2009 election and was elected for the NCP; after the election he joined the INC.{{cite web|url=http://roing.nic.in/press/news08052013.html |title=Jomin Tayeng, first IAS officer of the state cum MLA Dambuk passed away |date=8 May 2013 |publisher=District Administration, Lower Dibang Valley District}}