The Madhya Pradesh bureaucracy is witnessing a race among IAS and IPS officers to grab a slot in the State Information Commission. Even some retired bureaucrats have joined the fray, complicating the competition. There are at present three posts of the Information Commissioner that are lying vacant.
Among the IAS officers who have applied for these posts are Sanjay Mishra (IAS:2011:MP) and Vandana Vaidya (IAS:2009:MP). Both of them are serving civil servants but are ready to leave their present jobs to become Information Commissioners.
Among the IPS officers who have applied for the Information Commissioner’s posts are 1991-batch IPS officer GP Singh and 1989-batch IPS officer Mukesh Jain. In addition to them, another IPS officer of the 1992 batch, Pawan Shrivastava, has also applied for the post, though he is retiring on December 31.
Among the retired civil servants trying their luck are Sanjay Gupta, Virendra Singh Rawat, Naresh Pal, Rajesh Kaul, Ravindra Singh, and Snrinivas Sharma.
The list is exhaustive, as the officers retired from other administrative jobs are also flexing their muscles apart from the 51 journalists in the ring. Besides, there are a few others associated with the RSS who are also said to be lobbying for the posts.
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