Biography of Om Prakash Rawat Politician with Family Background and Personal Details
O P Rawat (Om Prakash Rawat) is the Chief Election Commissioner of India. He assumed the responsibility of the situation on 23 January 2018. He was named as the CEC after the untimely retirement of Achal Kumar Jyoti. He is a 1977 group IAS officer and has likewise served in as IPES (India's Public Enterprise Secretary). Rawat had been before serving in as one of the two Election Commissioners of India. Om Prakash Rawat was conceived on December 2, 1953. He completed his B.Sc and M.Sc both in Physics from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi. Later on, he likewise got a Masters certificate from the UK in Social Development Planning. In his profession, Rawat has engaged various privileged government positions. From 1983 to 1986, O P Rawat served as a collector in Narsinghpur, and Indore from 1986 to 1988. In the time of 1994, he held the situation of United Nations election observer in South Africa. After his arrival from the nation, he held various posts, for example, Registrar (Co-operative Societies), Commissioner (Women and Child Development), Secretary (Agriculture) and Madhya Pradesh's State Excise Commissioner. He likewise served in as the Principal Secretary in Madhya Pradesh.
He has likewise served in as the Vice-Chairman for the NVDA (Narmada Valley Development Authority). He resigned from the post of Secretary at the Department of Public Enterprises on December 31, 2013. On August 2015, Rawat assumed charge as one of the two Election Commissioners of India. Amid his term, he managed elections in diverse states, for example, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Assam, Manipur, Goa, and West Bengal, to give some examples.
Personal Information of Om Prakash Rawat
• Full Name- Om Prakash Rawat
• Date of Birth- 2 December 1953
• Birth Place- Uttar Pradesh, India
• Educational Qualification- B.Sc in Physics from BHU, Varanasi, M.Sc in Physics from BHU (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, M.Sc in Social Development Planning, UK
• Occupation- Chief Electric Commissioner of India
• Proceded by- Achal Kumar Jyoti
• Nationality- Indian
• Awards- An beneficiary of state government’s recognition of forest rights in 2009