June 29, 2021 05:33 am | Updated 05:33 am IST - AHMEDABAD
Karnataka : Bengaluru : 01/08/2019 : Senior Deputy Election Commissioner of India Umesh Sinha at the inauguration of Voters list revision of Electoral Roll 2020, at Vartha Soudha on 01 August 2019. Photo : V Sreenivasa Murthy/The Hindu.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the extension for Umesh Sinha, lAS (UP:86) (Retd.) as Deputy Election Commissioner in the Election Commission of India on contract basis for another year upto July, 2022.
Mr Sinha is a former U.P. cadre IAS officer who has been with the Election Commission of India for several years. The government re-employed him after he superannuated from the service.
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