7 officers including 3 non-IAS appointed as additional secretaries or equivalent; 7 IES officers empanelled as JS

THE government on Friday announced the following seven additional secretary level appointments:

Bureaucratic Reshuffle in Haryana: V Umashankar is new additional principal secretary to CM; Ashima Brar appointed as nodal officer of Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao

BLACKBUCK: Haryana's state animal

IN A major bureaucratic rejig, the Haryana government on Monday transferred 17 IAS officers, among others from the state civil services. Ashima Brar, 2004 batch IAS, will be the new deputy principal secretary to Haryana chief minister and also the nodal officer of Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao programme. Meanwhile, the CEO of Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority, V Umashankar, has been appointed as additional principal secretary to CM of Haryana. Here below are the details of 11 of the appointments: 

Three 2004 batch officers, one each from IDAS, IPoS and ISS, elevated as directors

THREE 2004 batch officers, belonging to Indian Defence Accounts Service, Indian Postal Service and Indian Statistical Service, have been elevated to the rank of directors. All those three officers were working with the central ministries as deputy secretary. A director is a notch higher than a deputy secretary in the government hierarchy. Here below are three officers and their elevation:

Heartening to hear IAS officers making mark in IFS positions: IAS Association reacts to a Khaleej Times report on IAS Dinesh Kumar as a diplomat

Dinesh Kumar, 2004 batch IAS

IAS Association on Sunday tweeted saying how heartening it is to “hear about IAS officers making the mark in positions which have normally been the domain of IFS officers”, adding further: “Proud of you Dinesh”. The Association has also attached a news clipping of Khaleej Times, a newspaper published from the Gulf where 2004 batch Nagaland cadre IAS officer, Dinesh Kumar — the first secretary for community affairs at the Indian Embassy in Abu Dhabi — was profiled and praised. The headline of the news reads:

Gujarat cadre IAS Rajender Kumar laterally shifted from DoPT to PMO; IPS PS Purohit elevated as special director in IB

Rajender Kumar, 2004 batch Gujarat cadre IAS, presently a director in the department of personnel and training (DoPT), has been laterally shifted as director in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). His tenure will be till May 26, 2021, or until further order, a DoPT office memorandum issued on July 2, said. A graduate in Ayurvedic before getting selected as an IAS, Kumar was collector in Gujarat’s Rajkot and then Surat district before joining the…

What happened to IAS Mona Sreenivas’ extension of deputation? And Parshant Goyal’s request for Punjab?

A PANEL headed by DoPT secretary Saniay Kothari has sought clarifications in writing from Haryana cadre IAS couple, A Mona Sreenivas and A Sreenivas, before taking a call on the wife’s request for extension of deputation tenure in AGMUT for two more years. Mona Sreenivas is a 2006 batch Haryana cadre IAS whereas her husband, now on deputation in Telangana is a 2004 batch Haryana IAS. The panel took up the case as Mona Sreenivas requested for extension of deputation period for a further period of two years beyond July 11, 2016 on personal grounds. But her husband A Sreenivas also…

Know Your Babu: New CITCO MD and 2004 batch IAS Kavita Singh

AFTER getting appointed as Managing Director of Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism Development Corporation Ltd (CITCO), Kavita Singh will be in AGMUT cadre, and not in Punjab cadre, at least for the next three years. According to a DoPT notification dated October 8, 2014, the Central government accorded approval of…

Know Your Babu: Sameer Verma, PS to Uma Bharti and BVRC Purushottam, PS to Venkaiah Naidu

Sameer Verma, IAS

THE government on Tuesday appointed two IAS officers, Sameer Verma and BVRC Purushottam as private secretaries of union ministers Ms Uma Bharti and M Venkaiah Naidu respectively. Verma is a lawyer-turned IAS whereas Purushottam was a veterinary doctor before getting selected as an IAS. BoI here gives snapshot of the career graph of these two officers:

Where’s the girl who filed a sexual exploitation case against 2004 batch Bihar cadre IAS?

THE Jalaun police of Uttar Pradesh has failed to trace the girl who lodged a complaint against 2004 batch Bihar cadre IAS Dr Virendra Prasad Yadav saying that he refused to marry her after sexually exploiting her, according to media reports. A veterinary doctor by profession, Yadav is now district magistrate of Madhepura in Bihar.

According to reports, the investigating officer has failed to get the whereabouts of the girl after a court directed the Jalaun police to lodge an FIR and investigate her complaint. According to a report in The Times of India, the address – Officers’ Colony in Sushil Nagar -- was not found accurate, and it was discovered that she had been residing at a rented house of SR Verma at Sushil Nagar in Orai town.

The investigating officer told a section of media that neither he could contact her or her parents so far, nor her brothers and sisters could inform him about her whereabouts and her mobile number.

Netas get united to punish 1996 batch IAS Naveen Mittal

In a classic case of Netas getting united to target a babu, a number of MPs, MLAs and MLCs cutting across party lines in Andhra Pradesh demanded that all the deals related to regularisation of government land for rich parties by former Hyderabad DM Naveen Mittal be cancelled and stringent action be taken against the 1996 batch Andhra Pradesh cadre IAS who is currently working as a special commissioner of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC). A B.Tech in computer engineering, Mr Mittal was also the DM of Machilipatnam, and had undertaken a short training programme on community development in US in 2002. 

Now UPSC may select 60 Indian Legal Service officers 

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