“Devender Kumar Sikri, a former Gujarat cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, was on Thursday appointed as chairman of fair-trade regulator Competition Commission of India (CCI),” reported the PTI and others.

The former secretary in the ministry of women and child development, registrar general of census, and collector of Rajkot and Jamnagar, is set to be chairman of the CCI for two-and-a-half years.

He succeeds Ashok Chawla, whose term ended on 7 January. Reportedly 100 bureaucrats, economists and six sitting CCI members applied for the post.