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Mr. HARISHANKAR BRAHMA The first Bodo Chief Election Commissioner
India’s Chief Election Commissioner Shri Harishankar Brahma, is a retired I.A.S. officer of 1975 batch from the Andhra Pradesh cadre. Mr. Brahma, who retired as the Union Power secretary in April 2011, will hold office till April 18, 2015. He is the second person from the North-east to become an Election Commissioner, after Shri J.M. Lyngdoh who hails from Meghalaya. Born on 19 April 1950, Shri Harishankar Brahma completed his Post graduation in Political Science from Gauhati University, Assam and graduated from St.Edmund’s college, Shillong. He did his schooling from Don Bosco School, Guwahati.
Harishankar Brahma has held various senior level posts in the Government of India and State Government prior to the present posting. Before retiring as Secretary from the Ministry of Power, Shri Brahma held posts such as Joint Secretary (Border Management) for more than four years and completed almost all the border fencing and other border infrastructural work on Indo- Pak and Indo-Bangladesh border. He also worked as Special Secretary & Additional Secretary in national disaster management Authority (Ministry of Home Affairs). He was the Member Secretary of the State Electricity Board, Andhra Pradesh and also worked as:
