Bhubaneswar: Former chief secretary of Odisha Paradeep Kumar Jena has been appointed as chairman of Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission. Jena will continue as chairman from the date of his assuming the charge for five years or till attaining the age of 65 which ever is earlier.
The chairman post of the Commission was laying vacant eversince the previous chairman Suresh Mohapatra, also a former chief secretary left the chair to join as chief advisor to the then chief minister Naveen Patnaik.