Madhup Vyas appointed as deputy election commissioner

IN SECRETARY-LEVEL RESHUFFLE

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Senior IAS officer Madhup Vyas has been appointed as deputy election commissioner, Election Commission of India, as part of a major joint secretary-level bureaucratic reshuffle affected by the Centre on Friday.

Vyas, a 2000-batch IAS officer of Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory or AGMUT cadre, has been appointed to the post for five years, an order from the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions said.

IAS officers Prasanna R and Sushma Chauhan have been appointed as joint secretaries in the Ministry of Home Affairs, it said.

Kamala Kant Tripathy, a 1999-batch officer of the Indian Economic Service (IES), has been appointed as joint secretary, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM), NITI Aayog, for a tenure of five years.