Devender Kumar Sikri, a former Gujarat cadre IAS officer, has been appointed. as the Chairman of fair-trade regulator Competition Commission of India (CCI)..Sikri succeeds Ashok Chawla, whose four-year tenure as CCI chief ended today..Sikri will have a tenure of about two and half years, a senior official in Department of Personnel and Training told Business Standard..Sikri, who has held various positions at the Centre as well as in his cadre state Gujarat, superannuated as secretary, Department of Justice on 31 July 2013..The former IAS officer had also been a Secretary in the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Registrar General of Census and Collector of Rajkot and Jamnagar, among others..Last year, Sikri was also in the race for India’s Vigilance commissioner..HT to Pranav Mehra, who tweets at @indianantitrust.
Devender Kumar Sikri, a former Gujarat cadre IAS officer, has been appointed. as the Chairman of fair-trade regulator Competition Commission of India (CCI)..Sikri succeeds Ashok Chawla, whose four-year tenure as CCI chief ended today..Sikri will have a tenure of about two and half years, a senior official in Department of Personnel and Training told Business Standard..Sikri, who has held various positions at the Centre as well as in his cadre state Gujarat, superannuated as secretary, Department of Justice on 31 July 2013..The former IAS officer had also been a Secretary in the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Registrar General of Census and Collector of Rajkot and Jamnagar, among others..Last year, Sikri was also in the race for India’s Vigilance commissioner..HT to Pranav Mehra, who tweets at @indianantitrust.
