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The retired civil servant Neela Satyanarayan has been appointed as the State Election Commissioner (SEC) of Maharashtra. She is the first woman in the state to hold the post.
She took over Nand Lal who retired recently as the SEC. Satyanarayan retired as the additional chief secretary from the state government three months ago.
She has held important assignments in the revenue, home, forest, social, information and publicity, medical, rural development and other departments of the government. As the SEC she will be responsible for the local elections in Maharashtra.
From the 1971 batch of the Indian Administrative Service, Satyanarayan is a multi-faceted personality with interest in music and literature. She has to her credit several collections of poems and plays penned in Hindi and Marathi. She has written a book for the visually handicapped persons.
She has also done the lyrics for more than 150 songs and has provided music to several Marathi movies. She was also the music director and lyricist for two Bollywood movies, and has received numerous awards and honours in the field of literature and culture from around India.
