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Commissioner of India">Chief Election Commissioner of India</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />2 December 2018 – 12 April 2021</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ram_Nath_Kovind" title="Ram Nath Kovind">Ram Nath Kovind</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Om_Prakash_Rawat" title="Om Prakash Rawat">Om Prakash Rawat</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sushil_Chandra" title="Sushil Chandra">Sushil Chandra</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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2017</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Secretary_to_the_Government_of_India" title="Secretary to the Government of India">Information and Broadcasting Secretary of India</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />31 August 2015 – 30 April 2016</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Secretary_to_the_Government_of_India" title="Secretary to the Government of India">Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Secretary of India</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />29 August 2014 – 30 August 2015</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1956-04-13</span>) </span>13 April 1956<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 68)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Hoshiarpur" title="Hoshiarpur">Hoshiarpur</a>, <a href="/wiki/East_Punjab" title="East Punjab">Punjab</a>, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Panjab_University" title="Panjab University">Panjab University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>, <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts" title="Master of Arts">MA</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-:Uni_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:Uni-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Indian_Administrative_Service" title="Indian Administrative Service">Retired IAS Officer</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shri_Sunil_Arora_taking_charge_as_the_Election_Commissioner_of_India,_in_New_Delhi_on_September_01,_2017.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Shri_Sunil_Arora_taking_charge_as_the_Election_Commissioner_of_India%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_September_01%2C_2017.jpg/220px-Shri_Sunil_Arora_taking_charge_as_the_Election_Commissioner_of_India%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_September_01%2C_2017.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Shri_Sunil_Arora_taking_charge_as_the_Election_Commissioner_of_India%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_September_01%2C_2017.jpg/330px-Shri_Sunil_Arora_taking_charge_as_the_Election_Commissioner_of_India%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_September_01%2C_2017.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Shri_Sunil_Arora_taking_charge_as_the_Election_Commissioner_of_India%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_September_01%2C_2017.jpg/440px-Shri_Sunil_Arora_taking_charge_as_the_Election_Commissioner_of_India%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_September_01%2C_2017.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1973" data-file-height="1533" /></a><figcaption>Arora taking charge as an <a href="/wiki/Election_Commissioner_of_India" title="Election Commissioner of India">Election Commissioner of India</a> in September 2017</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Sunil Arora</b> (born 13 April 1956) was the 23rd <a href="/wiki/Chief_Election_Commissioner_of_India" title="Chief Election Commissioner of India">Chief Election Commissioner of India</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is also the chairman for <a href="/wiki/Association_of_World_Election_Bodies" title="Association of World Election Bodies">Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB)</a>. He is a retired 1980 batch <a href="/wiki/Indian_Administrative_Service" title="Indian Administrative Service">Indian Administrative Service</a> (IAS) officer of <a href="/wiki/Rajasthan" title="Rajasthan">Rajasthan</a> cadre. He also served as a <a href="/wiki/Secretary_to_the_Government_of_India" title="Secretary to the Government of India">secretary to the Government of India</a> in two ministries.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sunil_Arora&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Of his two brothers, one is also an <a href="/wiki/Indian_Administrative_Service" title="Indian Administrative Service">IAS officer</a>, whereas, the other is a <a href="/wiki/Diplomat" title="Diplomat">diplomat</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Foreign_Service" title="Indian Foreign Service">Indian Foreign Service</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:3_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sunil_Arora&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Arora has <a href="/wiki/Undergraduate_degree" title="Undergraduate degree">graduate</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA Honours</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Postgraduate_education" title="Postgraduate education">postgraduate</a> (<a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts" title="Master of Arts">MA</a>) degrees in <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> from <a href="/wiki/Panjab_University" title="Panjab University">Panjab University</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Chandigarh" title="Chandigarh">Union Territory of Chandigarh</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:Uni_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:Uni-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:3_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sunil_Arora&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Before_IAS">Before IAS</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sunil_Arora&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Before IAS"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Before being appointed as an <a href="/wiki/Indian_Administrative_Service" title="Indian Administrative Service">IAS officer</a>, Sunil Arora served as an <a href="/wiki/Associate_professor" title="Associate professor">associate professor</a> in <a href="/wiki/DAV_College" class="mw-redirect" title="DAV College">DAV College</a> in <a href="/wiki/Jalandhar" title="Jalandhar">Jalandhar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:3_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="As_an_IAS_officer">As an IAS officer</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sunil_Arora&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: As an IAS officer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As an <a href="/wiki/Indian_Administrative_Service" title="Indian Administrative Service">IAS officer</a>, Arora served in various key positions for both the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_India" title="Government of India">Government of India</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Rajasthan" title="Government of Rajasthan">Government of Rajasthan</a>, including as the <a href="/wiki/Chief_secretary_(India)" title="Chief secretary (India)">Additional Chief Secretary</a> (Home), <a href="/wiki/Principal_Secretary_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Principal Secretary (India)">Principal Secretary</a> (Small Industries), <a href="/wiki/Principal_Secretary_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Principal Secretary (India)">Principal Secretary</a> (Investment and Protocol), Chairman and managing director of the <a href="/wiki/Rajasthan_State_Industrial_Development_and_Investment_Corporation" title="Rajasthan State Industrial Development and Investment Corporation">Rajasthan State Industrial Development and Investment Corporation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Principal_Secretary_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Principal Secretary (India)">Principal Secretary</a> to the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Chief_Ministers_of_Rajasthan" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Chief Ministers of Rajasthan">Chief Minister of Rajasthan</a>, and as the <a href="/wiki/District_collector_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="District collector (India)">district magistrate and collector</a> of <a href="/wiki/Jodhpur_district" title="Jodhpur district">Jodhpur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nagaur_district" title="Nagaur district">Nagaur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alwar_district" title="Alwar district">Alwar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dholpur_district" title="Dholpur district">Dholpur</a> <a href="/wiki/List_of_districts_of_Rajasthan" title="List of districts of Rajasthan">districts</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Rajasthan" title="Government of Rajasthan">Rajasthan Government</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-:Uni_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:Uni-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:6_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:4_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:5_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and as the <a href="/wiki/Secretary_to_Government_of_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary to Government of India">Union Information and Broadcasting Secretary</a>, <a href="/wiki/Secretary_to_Government_of_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary to Government of India">Union Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Secretary</a>, chairperson and managing director of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_(airline)" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian (airline)">Indian Airlines</a>, and as a <a href="/wiki/Joint_secretary_to_the_Government_of_India" title="Joint secretary to the Government of India">joint secretary</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Civil_Aviation_(India)" title="Ministry of Civil Aviation (India)">Ministry of Civil Aviation</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_India" title="Government of India">Indian government</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:Uni_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:Uni-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:6_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:4_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:5_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Arora superannuated from service on 30 April 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:6_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Post retirement, Arora was appointed the director general and chief executive officer of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Corporate_Affairs" title="Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs">Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs</a>, and hence was deemed to have been re-employed into the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Administrative_Service" title="Indian Administrative Service">IAS</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Election_Commissioner_of_India">Election Commissioner of India</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sunil_Arora&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Election Commissioner of India"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Arora assumed office as one of the two <a href="/wiki/Election_Commissioner_of_India" title="Election Commissioner of India">Election Commissioners of India</a> on 31 August 2017,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Arora assumed the office of Election Commissioner on 1 September 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:4_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his tenure, <a href="/wiki/2019_Indian_general_election" title="2019 Indian general election">2019 Indian general election</a> were held. </p><p>He has joined agri-tech start-up Gram Unnati as its non-executive chairman.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sunil_Arora&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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