{"id":325922,"date":"2020-09-01T07:30:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T07:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325922"},"modified":"2020-09-01T08:01:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T08:01:45","slug":"rajiv-kumar-takes-over-as-new-election-commissioner-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajiv-kumar-takes-over-as-new-election-commissioner-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajiv Kumar takes over as new Election Commissioner of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajiv-kumar-takes-over-as-new-election-commissioner-of-india\/rajiv-kumar-election-comissioner\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-325923\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-325923 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/rajiv-kumar-election-comissioner-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"647\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/rajiv-kumar-election-comissioner-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/rajiv-kumar-election-comissioner-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/rajiv-kumar-election-comissioner-696x455.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/rajiv-kumar-election-comissioner-741x486.jpg 741w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/rajiv-kumar-election-comissioner-642x420.jpg 642w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/rajiv-kumar-election-comissioner.jpg 775w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/a>Rajiv Kumar on Tuesday assumed charge as the new Election Commissioner (EC) of India. Kumar joins the Election Commission of India with Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Born on 19th February\u00a01960, Rajiv Kumar is a 1984 batch Indian Administrative Service Officer.\u00a0 During the span of more than 36 years of Government of India service, Kumar has worked in various ministries at the Centre and his state cadre of Bihar\/Jharkhand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Acquiring his academic degrees of B.SC, LL.B, PGDM, and MA Public Policy, Kumar has extensive work experience across Social Sector, Environment &amp; Forests, Human Resources, Finance, and Banking Sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Kumar retired as Finance Secretary, Government of India in February 2020. He was thereafter appointed as Chairman Public Enterprises Selection Board from April 2020 till demitting office on 31st August 2020.\u00a0 Kumar has also been Establishment Officer, Department of Personnel and Training from 2015-17, and prior to that Joint Secretary, Department of Expenditure with earlier assignments in Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Ministry of Environment and Forests as also Education department in State cadre.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajiv Kumar on Tuesday assumed charge as the new Election Commissioner (EC) of India. Kumar joins the Election Commission of India with Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra. Born on 19th February\u00a01960, Rajiv Kumar is a 1984 batch Indian Administrative Service Officer.\u00a0 During the span of more than 36 years of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":325923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[13354,4662],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325925,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325922\/revisions\/325925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/325923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}