Bohra was chief planning officer and principal director of commercial projects administration for the Planning Commission of the Government India from 1952 to 1962. On his first official trip to the U.S. in this capacity in 1954, Bohra met with such personalities as Richard Nixon and Adlai Stevenson. Bohra served as India's expert in the International Labour Organization in Sri Lanka and Egypt from 1962 to 1969. He was also the senior industrial engineer and project manager for India's delegation on Labor and Development to the United Nations, a position which took him as far afield as Gazientep, Turkey, Nairobi, Kenya, and Colombo, Sri Lanka from 1969 to 1982.