New Delhi: The government has issued order for extension of the tenure of former Gujarat cadre bureaucrat Pradeep Kumar Pujari as chairperson of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) till mid-next year.
The tenure extension order is also likely to apply to the other two members – I S Jha, former Power Grid Corp chairman, and Arun Goyal, ex-bureaucrat — of the regulatory commission, giving them five years of service or till they attain 65 years, sources said. The tenure of the commission’s recently appointed member law Pravas Kumar Singh is already fixed as five years.
Pujari is the first chairman of the power regulator to get tenure extension even as the Electricity Act, 2003 forbids it.
