New Delhi (14.03.2024): Two retired IAS officers of the same batch but from different cadres -- Gyanesh Kumar (Retd IAS: 1988: KL) and S S Sandhu (Retd IAS: 1988: UK) -- to be appointed as Election Commissioners in the Election Commission of India. 

Sources disclosed their names after the meeting of the collegium to appoint Election Commissioner chaired Prime Minister of India was held today. Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary were other members of the panel.

S S Sandhu recently retired as Chief Secretary of Uttarakhand while Kumar was Secretary in the Cooperative ministry. Sources said that the Government had sent Chowdhury five lists containing 236 names. The list included the names of 92 officers who retired as Secretary and Secretary equivalent in Government of India, 93 names of officers serving as Secretary and Secretary equivalent officers in Government of India, 15 officers who retired as Chief Secretaries of state and union territories in last one year, 28 and 8 officers serving as chief secretaries in states and union territories.