Govt still looking for DPS Sandhu’s replacement in World Bank?

THE government has been looking for suitable candidates at the level of deputy secretary or director in Government of India to fill up two posts of adviser to the executive director in the World Bank in place of 1987 batch IRTS officer DPS Sandhu and 1991 batch Karnataka cadre IAS LK Atheeq. It’s quite surprising that the DoPT circular dated August 6, 2015 is searching for Sandhu’s replacement, because an one and half years old circular dated January 27, 2014 (the UPA time) actually…

Govt searches for a replacement of DPS Sandhu in World Bank; PMO, finance ministry directors turn hot favorites

THE government has begun the search process to find a replacement of DPS Sandhu, an adviser to World Bank executive director Mukesh N Prasad. DoPT in a circular dated January 27, 2014 asked state chief secretaries and Union secretaries of the cadre controlling ministries to nominate names of suitable officers of deputy secretary or director ranks. But as history suggests, this Washington-based post with a tenure of three years usually gets filled by officers working in one of the two ministries viz.