Four months after the Supreme Court quashed the appointment of P J Thomas as Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC), Union Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar, a 1972-batch Haryana cadre IAS officer, was today selected as the new CVC.
His name was selected from the four short-listed names by the three-member high-level committee comprising Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Home Minister P Chidambaram and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, who met at the PM?s residence here.
Formal orders appointing Kumar will be issued once President Pratibha Patil, who is on tour, returns to the Capital next week.
Kumar will have a three-year term as he will have to demit office on attaining age of 65 years under the CVC Act.
Emerging out of the meeting, Swaraj told mediapersons, ?The name of the new CVC has been finalised, no objections were raised. The name will be announced by government.?
While she didn?t announce the name of the next CVC, sources said the name of Kumar, who retires on July 31, was proposed by the government and accepted by Swaraj.
?The other names were also discussed but once all three members agreed on Kumar, the issue was settled,? sources told The Sunday Express.
As reported in the The Indian Express on Saturday, the government had shortlisted the names of Kumar, former Union Home Secretary G K Pillai, former Union Health Secretary Naresh Dayal and Railway Board Member (Engineering) A P Mishra.
The new appointee is an alumnus of IIT-Delhi, who has held several important positions, both in Haryana as well as the Centre, including Secretary, Defence Production, and Secretary, Disinvestment, Chairman, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), as well as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.
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