Sunil Arora

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Sunil Arora
Media address by Chief Election Commissioner of India, Shri Sunil Arora on 2nd December 2018 (cropped).jpg
23rd Chief Election Commissioner of India
In office
2 December 2018 – 12 April 2021
PresidentRam Nath Kovind
Preceded byOm Prakash Rawat
Succeeded bySushil Chandra
Election Commissioner of India
In office
1 September 2017 – 2 December 2018
Director General and CEO of Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs
In office
19 December 2016 – 31 August 2017
Information and Broadcasting Secretary of India
In office
31 August 2015 – 30 April 2016
Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Secretary of India
In office
29 August 2014 – 30 August 2015
Personal details
Born (1956-04-13) 13 April 1956 (age 67)
Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India
Alma materPanjab University (BA, MA)[1]
OccupationRetired IAS Officer
Arora taking charge as an Election Commissioner of India in September 2017

Sunil Arora (born 13 April 1956) was the 23rd Chief Election Commissioner of India.[2] [3] He is also the chairman for Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB). He is a retired 1980 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Rajasthan cadre. He also served as a secretary to the Government of India in two ministries.[4][5]

Personal life[edit]

Arora's father is a retired accounts officer of the Indian Railways, whereas his mother served in DAV College, Hoshiarpur. Of his two brothers, one is also an IAS officer, whereas, the other is a diplomat from the Indian Foreign Service.[6][7]

Education[edit]

Arora has graduate (BA Honours) and postgraduate (MA) degrees in English from Panjab University in the Union Territory of Chandigarh.[1][6][7][8]

Career[edit]

Before IAS[edit]

Before being appointed as an IAS officer, Sunil Arora served as an associate professor in DAV College in Jalandhar.[6][7]

As an IAS officer[edit]

As an IAS officer, Arora served in various key positions for both the Government of India and the Government of Rajasthan, including as the Additional Chief Secretary (Home), Principal Secretary (Small Industries), Principal Secretary (Investment and Protocol), Chairman and managing director of the Rajasthan State Industrial Development and Investment Corporation, Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister of Rajasthan, and as the district magistrate and collector of Jodhpur, Nagaur, Alwar and Dholpur districts in the Rajasthan Government,[1][8][9][10][11][12] and as the Union Information and Broadcasting Secretary, Union Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Secretary, chairperson and managing director of the Indian Airlines, and as a joint secretary in the Ministry of Civil Aviation in the Indian government.[1][9][8][10][11][12] He was the Chairman and Managing Director of the erstwhile Indian Airlines during the Indian Airlines Flight 814 highjacking incident.

Arora superannuated from service on 30 April 2016.[8][9][10] Post retirement, Arora was appointed the director general and chief executive officer of the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, and hence was deemed to have been re-employed into the IAS.[8][13][14][15]

Election Commissioner of India[edit]

Arora assumed office as one of the two Election Commissioners of India on 31 August 2017,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22] Arora assumed the office of Election Commissioner on 1 September 2017.[10][11][23][24] Elections to the state assemblies of Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram were held during his tenure as election commissioner.

Chief Election Commissioner[edit]

Arora took over as chief election commissioner on 2nd December 2018, succeeding Om Prakash Rawat. He was in-charge of the 2019 Indian General election and elections to the state assemblies of Maharashtra, Haryana, Jharkhand, Delhi, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal, Assam and Puducherry.

References[edit]

Citations[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Election Commissioner - Shri Sunil Arora". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 30 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ↑ "President Kovind appoints Sunil Arora as new Chief Election Commissioner". 26 November 2018. Retrieved 27 November 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ↑ "As Sunil Arora retires on 12th April and Sushil Chandra will take charge as new Chief Election Commissioner of India".
  4. ↑ "कौन हैं सुनील अरोड़ा, जिनकी निगरानी में होंगे पांच राज्य में विधानसभा चुनाव". Amar Ujala (in हिन्दी). Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  5. ↑ "जानें मुख्य निर्वाचन आयुक्त सुनील अरोड़ा के बारे में, जिन्होंने किया 05 राज्यों में चुनावों का ऐलान". News18 Hindi (in हिन्दी). Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "New Election Commissioner's Doaba connect". The Tribune. 7 September 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "यहां पढ़े हैं चुनाव आयोग के कमिश्नर बने सुनील अरोड़ा,सरकारी कॉलेज से MA की" [New commissioner of the Election Commission studied here; did his MA from government college]. Dainik Bhaskar (in हिन्दी). Hoshiarpur. 7 September 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 "Sunil Arora - Executive Record Sheet". Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India. Retrieved 2 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 "Sunil Arora - Officer Service History". Department of Personnel, Government of Rajasthan. Retrieved 15 January 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 "Shri Sunil Arora takes over as new Election Commissioner on 1st September, 2017" (PDF). Election Commission of India. 1 September 2017. Retrieved 5 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Parihar, Rohit (3 September 2017). Kumar, Ganesh; Udayakumar, Radha (eds.). "Why Rajiv Mehrishi's and Sunil Arora's appointments are Rajasthan's loss and the Centre's gain". India Today. Retrieved 7 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Sunil Arora is the third Election Commissioner: Former bureaucrat has worked for finance ministry and Planning Commission". Firstpost. 1 September 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. ↑ "Govt appoints Sunil Arora as IICA Director General". The New Indian Express. 10 December 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ↑ "Govt appoints Sunil Arora as IICA Director General". Business Standard. 15 December 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. ↑ "Sunil Arora appointed as Director General of IICA". Jagran Josh. Dainik Jagran. 17 December 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. ↑ "Shri Sunil Arora Appointed as New Election Commissioner". Press Information Bureau of India. 31 August 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  17. ↑ Jain, Bharti (31 August 2017). "Sunil Arora appointed Election Commissioner". Times of India. Retrieved 2 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  18. ↑ Mohit (31 August 2017). "राजीव महर्षि होंगे देश के नए CAG, सुनील अरोड़ा बने चुनाव आयुक्त" [Rajiv Mehrishi will be the nation's next CAG; Sunil Arora appointed as Election Commissioner]. Amar Ujala (in हिन्दी). Amarujala.com. Amar Ujala Publications Ltd. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  19. ↑ "Sunil Arora appointed as Election Commissioner". The Economic Times. 1 September 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  20. ↑ "Former Bureaucrat Sunil Arora Appointed Election Commissioner". NDTV. 1 September 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  21. ↑ "Sunil Arora appointed Election Commissioner". The Indian Express. 1 September 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  22. ↑ "Sunil Arora appointed Election Commissioner, Achal Kumar Joti is CEC". Business Standard. 1 September 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  23. ↑ "Raj cadre officer takes charge as EC". Daily News and Analysis. 2 September 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  24. ↑ "Sunil Arora assumes charge as new Election Commissioner". United News of India. 1 September 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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