Kolkata: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has appointed Arun Prasad as the new Additional Chief Electoral Officer (ACEO) and Harishankar Panikkar as the Joint Chief Electoral Officer (JCEO) of West Bengal, an official said on Thursday.

The appointments come ahead of the anticipated rollout of the Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal in October.

The ECI had requested the West Bengal government to submit a panel of names for these two positions. Prasad and Panikkar were selected from the list provided by the state government, the official added.

Prasad is a 2011-batch IAS officer of the West Bengal cadre, while Panikkar belongs to the 2013 batch.

The Election Commission has also asked for a new list of three candidates for the vacant Deput

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