Rajeev Kumar Takes Charge as Election Commissioner of India, He Replaces Ashok Lavasa

Rajeev Kumar Takes Charge as Election Commissioner of India, He Replaces Ashok Lavasa

Former finance secretary Rajeev Kumar assumed charge as the new Election Commissioner of India on Tuesday, September 1. He joined the Election Commission of India with Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra. Rajeev Kumar will be taking the place of Ashok Lavasa who resigned recently in order to join the Asian Development Bank

Former Union finance secretary and Senior Bihar/Jharkhand cadre IAS officer Rajeev Kumar took charge of his new position as the Election Commissioner of India on Tuesday, along with Sunil Arora and Sushil Chandra who will be joining as the Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioner respectively. "He has keen commitment to use of technology applications and to bring about amendments in extant policy regime towards greater transparency, delivery of services to citizens directly, eliminating intermediaries, PTI