Anup Chandra Pandey, retired UP cadre IAS officer, appointed Election Commissioner

The Union authorities on Tuesday appointed Anup Chandra Pandey, a retired IAS officer of the 1984 batch, Uttar Pradesh cadre, as Election Commissioner.
Pandey has been appointed to the place left vacant by former Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora’s retirement on April 12. This restores the three-member fee to its full power, which can now oversee the subsequent set of essential meeting elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand subsequent yr.
Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra and Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar are the opposite two members on the panel.
Before his retirement from the civil providers in August 2019, Pandey had served because the Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh below Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and in addition because the Infrastructure and Industrial Development Commissioner of the state. He has a BTech diploma in mechanical engineering, an MBA diploma and a doctorate in historic historical past.
In the Election Commission, Pandey may have slightly below three years in workplace and can retire in February 2024.