{"id":199524,"date":"2022-09-04T00:23:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T18:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=199524"},"modified":"2022-09-04T00:23:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T18:53:14","slug":"new-apsc-chairman-sworn-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/09\/04\/new-apsc-chairman-sworn-in\/","title":{"rendered":"New APSC chairman sworn-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guwahati, Sep 3 (PTI) Bharat Bhushan Dev Choudhury was on Saturday sworn-in as the Chairman of the Assam Public Service Commission (APSC).<br \/>\nGovernor Jagdish Mukhi administered the oath of office to Choudhury at a function at the Raj Bhavan, an official release said.<br \/>\nChief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma was also present on the occasion.<br \/>\nThe APSC chairman&#8217;s post fell vacant after the term of Rajiv Kumar Bora ended in June this year. The Commission&#8217;s Member Ajanta Nath was performing the duties of the office of the Chairman since then.<br \/>\nAn avid quizmaster, Choudhury was an Assam Civil Services (ACS) officer and was promoted to IAS in 2010.<br \/>\nHe had served in various posts, including Deputy Commissioner of Nalbari and Bajali districts, during his tenure.<br \/>\nHe is the first-ever APSC Chairman coming from an ACS background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati, Sep 3 (PTI) Bharat Bhushan Dev Choudhury was on Saturday sworn-in as the Chairman of the Assam Public Service Commission (APSC). Governor Jagdish Mukhi administered the oath of office to Choudhury at a function at the Raj Bhavan, an official release said. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma was also present on the occasion. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-199524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}