Srinagar The Jammu and Kashmir Government on Friday appointed the outgoing Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Pandurang Kondbarao Pole as the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) and Commissioner-Secretary in the election department.
The post had been vacant since September 2022, when the then Chief Electoral Officer Hardesh Kumar was transferred and posted as the Deputy Election Commissioner in the Election Commission of India for a five-year term. An order issued from General Administration Department (GAD) reads “In pursuance of notification issued by the Election Commission of India, Pandurang Kondbarao Pole is appointed as Chief Electoral Officer”. The 2004-batch IAS officer shall also be the Commissioner-Secretary to the government in the election department, the order reads further.
