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Centre Appoints Prakash Rajpurohit as Deputy Election Commissioner and Vivek Khare as NTA Joint Secretary
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CNBC TV18•10-10-2026, 19:16
Centre Appoints Prakash Rajpurohit as Deputy Election Commissioner and Vivek Khare as NTA Joint Secretary
- •Senior bureaucrat Prakash Rajpurohit has been appointed as Deputy Election Commissioner for a tenure up to April 8, 2030.
- •Vivek Khare has been appointed as the Joint Secretary of the National Testing Agency.
- •The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved appointments of 27 civil servants at joint secretary and equivalent levels.
- •Several other key appointments include Ravi Shankar, Chittaranjan Dash, and Varnali Deka across various ministries and authorities.
- •Govind Jaiswal was prematurely repatriated to his parent cadre in a separate order by the Department of Higher Education.
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Senior bureaucrat Prakash Rajpurohit, a 2010 batch IAS officer of the Rajasthan cadre, has been appointed as the new Deputy Election Commissioner. He replaces Sanjay Kumar and will serve a tenure up to April 8, 2030.
Vivek Khare, a 1996 batch Indian Telecom Service officer, has been appointed as the Joint Secretary of the National Testing Agency (NTA).
In a separate order dated October 9, the ACC approved the premature repatriation of Govind Jaiswal, Joint Secretary in the Department of Higher Education, back to his parent cadre. Jaiswal is a 2007 batch IAS officer of the AGMUT cadre.
