Election Commission appoints 20 Bihar IAS officers as Observers for poll-bound 5 states

New Delhi, Sep 29: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has appointed 20 Bihar IAS officers as observers for the upcoming Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan and Telangana.

The General Administration Department has issued a notification in this regard. A brief meeting of all these officers will be held on October 6 at the Constitution Club in Delhi.

According to the information received on Thursday, the observers included Narmadeshwar Lal (Principal Secretary, Sugarcane Industry Department), Rajesh Kumar (Secretary, Bihar Human Rights Commission), Vinod Singh Gunjiyal (Secretary, Central Prohibited Products and Registration Department), Deepak Anand (Director, Consumer Protection Fertilizer and Consumer Protection Department), Ashima Jain (Special Secretary, Minor Water Resources Department),

Singh (Eco Commissioner, Sugarcane Industry Department), Suresh Chaudhary (Settlement Officer, West Champaran), Seema Tripathi (Special Secretary, Art, Culture and Youth) Department), Kaushal Kishore (Director, Integrated Child Development Services), Animesh Kumar Parashar (Chief Executive Officer cum Municipal Commissioner, Patna Municipal Corporation), Mithilesh Mishra (Director, Mid Day Meal), Sanjeev Kumar (Director, Technical Service Industries Department), Sunil Kumar Yadav (Additional Secretary, Urban Development and Housing Department), Rajesh Meena (Director, Cooperative Societies, Bihar), Navdeep Shukla (Director, Animal Husbandry, Bihar Patna), Anand Sharma (Director, Panchayati Raj),Shyam Bihari Meena (Director, Planning and Training), Mohammad Nair Iqbal (Director, Mines Department), Prashant Kumar CH (Director, Social Welfare), Sajjan R (Joint Secretary, Education Department).