Chandigarh, Nov. 7 -- The Haryana government on Friday appointed retired 1992-batch IAS officer Arun Kumar Gupta as the chairman of the Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (HERC). Gupta served as the principal secretary to chief minister Nayab Singh Saini and held the charge of additional chief secretary ( finance) before his superannuation on September 30 after the central government declined the state government's proposal to grant him a service extension. The appointment comes in the backdrop of the regulator granting a parallel power distribution licence in October to a private entity (Eleven Power) in Gurugram and Nuh. The move sparked a three-day statewide strike by power sector employees, forcing the government to intervene under Section 108 of the Electricity Act and direct the HERC to halt its implementation....