IAS officer Hirdesh Kumar was on Monday appointed the new chief electoral officer of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Election Commission appointed Kumar as the new CEOreplacing Shailendra Kumar.
Hirdesh Kumar, a 1999-batch IAS officer of the Jammu andKashmir cadre, was selected from a panel of names sent by the J-Kadministration to the EC.
The Commission on Monday issued a notification announcingthe appointment of Hirdesh Kumar and asked the Jammu and Kashmir administrationto ensure that the new CEO takes charge “immediately”.
Sources in the poll panel said the Jammu and Kashmiradministration had requested the EC to allow Shailendra Kumar to be deployedfor another assignment.