Former Uttar Pradesh chief secretary Anup Chandra Pandey took charge as the new election commissioner of India on Wednesday after being appointed for the post by the President.
The post fell vacant in April following the retirement of former chief election commissioner Sunil Arora.
The 1984-batch IAS officer graduated from Chandigarh’s Punjab Engineering College holds a master’s degree in business administration from Panjab University (Chandigarh) and a doctorate in ancient history from Bihar’s Magadh University.
He was appointed as the chief secretary of Uttar Pradesh from September 2017 to August 2019 and was earlier the state’s industrial development commissioner.
The former bureaucrat has also served in the central government for four years as a joint secretary.
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