The search is underway for the post of chairman of the Chhattisgarh State Electricity Regulatory Commission. Two names among many others had been emerging as the candidates for the top post mainly—Chairman of the Academy of Administration Narayan Singh and Principal Secretary to the Governor Jawahar Srivastava, official sources here said.
The tenure of the sitting chairman of the Commission Manoj De is due for expiry. The applications for appointing a new chairman had already been invited which had its deadline on May 31.Till now, technocrats had held the top post in the Commission. De was the Member Secretary of the Commission before being appointed as its chairman. The tenure of the chairman is of five years with the age limit of 65 years.
The selection of the new Chairman would be done by a committee headed by a Retired Judge of the High Court in which a member of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission and the State Chief Secretary would be the members.
A number of chiefs of power distribution companies are also in the race for the top post , it was learnt.