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Gyanesh Kumar’s youngsters have additionally adopted his footsteps and have served as Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers.
On this picture through @ECISVEEP on X on Feb. 5, 2025, Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar reveals his inked finger after casting his vote at a polling sales space through the Delhi Meeting elections, in New Delhi. (IMAGE: PTI)
Gyanesh Kumar, a 1988-batch IAS officer from the Kerala cadre, is about to tackle the highest position on the Election Fee of India.
The regulation ministry on Monday introduced that the IAS officer, who’s a local of Uttar Pradesh’s Agra, was appointed as the subsequent chief election commissioner on Monday, the regulation ministry stated.
Kumar, who’s succeeding former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Rajiv Kumar, accomplished his B.Tech in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Know-how (IIT), Kanpur, he studied Enterprise Finance in ICFAI, India and Environmental Economics in HIID, Harvard College, US.
The IAS officer, whose son, daughter and son-in-law, as per a News18 Hindi report, are additionally IAS officers, superannuated on January 31, 2024 and has beforehand labored because the joint secretary within the Ministry of Defence, joint secretary and extra secretary within the Ministry of House Affairs, secretary within the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and secretary within the Ministry of Cooperation.
Notably, throughout his tenure, he labored on vital assignments such because the revocation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir.
In 2014, whereas serving because the Resident Commissioner of Kerala in Delhi, Kumar was deputed by the state authorities to rescue Indian nurses held captive by ISIS terrorists from Iraq, as a civil struggle raged there. The operation, which rescued 46 nurses initially and later 183 Indians, included 70 evacuees from Kerala.
As a secretary to the federal government of Kerala, Kumar dealt with numerous departments, comparable to finance sources, fast-track tasks and the general public works division.
He has labored within the authorities of Kerala because the assistant collector of Ernakulam, sub-collector of Adoor, managing director of the Kerala State Improvement Company for SC/ST, municipal commissioner of the Company of Cochin, apart from holding different posts.
His time period will run until January 26, 2029, days earlier than the EC is anticipated to announce the schedule of the subsequent Lok Sabha election.
Vivek Joshi, a 1989-batch Haryana-cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, has been appointed as an election commissioner.
Throughout his tenure because the twenty sixth CEC, Kumar will oversee the Bihar Meeting polls later this 12 months, and the Kerala and Puducherry Meeting polls in 2026.
Equally, he’ll oversee the Meeting polls in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, that are additionally due in 2026.
(with PTI and News18 Hindi inputs)
