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D K Jain appointed Chief Secretary of Maharashtra

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MUMBAI : The state government on Monday appointed Dinesh Kumar Jain as the 39th chief secretary of Maharashtra. The 1983 batch Indian Administrative Service officer, who was additional chief secretary of finance department, will serve for nine months before his retirement, scheduled on January 31, 2019.Jain took over from the outgoing CS Sumit Mullick on Monday evening at Mantralaya.

Jain was appointed by superseding two seniormost officers, Medha Gadgil and SK Shrivastava.

Born on January 25, 1959 in Jaipur, Rajasthan, Jain has an M Tech in Mechanical Engineering and MBA in Overseas Projects. He served in various districts and in positions between 1984 and 1995, including additional collector in Nashik, deputy commissioner in sales tax to collector in Solapur. Barring a brief stint in 2002 and 2007-08, Jain was on central deputation from 1995 to 2015. He served in key posts in various central departments including agriculture, rural development and employment guarantee scheme. He served in the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, New Delhi, as national programme director. Jain came back to Maharashtra in March 2015 and served in various departments since then.

81 IAS officers transferred in Rajasthan

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The Rajasthan government transferred 81 IAS officers in a major administrative reshuffle late Monday night after it named a 1983-batch officer DB Gupta as the new chief secretary.

Mukesh Kumar Sharma: ACS, finance, excise and taxation departments.
JC Mohanty : ACS, Information and Public Relations.
Dr. Subodh Agarwal : ACS, Higher and technical education.
Kuldeep Ranka : ACS, Tourism, Art and Culture, and Environment Department.
Ajitabh Sharma : ACS, Revenue and Sainik Welfare Department of the State.
Rajesh Kumar Yadav : ACS, Labour, Employment, Skill Development and ESI Department.
Raj Hans Upadhyay : Managing Director (MD), Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation.
Kunjilal Meena : Secretary and Commissioner, Panchayati Raj.
Hanuman Sahay Meena : Divisional Commissioner and Commissioner, Irrigated Area Development.
Krishna Kunal: Director, Industies & CSR department and Special Secretary, Industries Department.
Haunlianlal Guite : Secretary, Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation.
Dr Rajesh Sharma : Commissioner, Information and Public Relations.
Rajeshwar Singh : Principal secretary, Rural development.
T Ravikanth : Jaipur divisional commissioner.
Lalit Kumar Gupta : Jodhpur divisional commissioner.
Kailash Chand Verma : Kota divisional commissioner.
Rohit Gupta : Commissioner, Rajasthan Housing Board.
Namit Mehta : Secretary, Ajmer Development Authority.
Suresh Kunar Ola : CEO, Jaipur Smart City Ltd.
Narendra Kumar Gupta : Collector, Bikaner.
Bhanwar Lal Mehra : Collector, Pratapgarh.
Gaurav Goyal: Collector, Kota.
Nannumal Pahadia : Collector, Dholpur.
Anadhi: Collector, Rajsamand.
Shuchi Tyagi: Collector, Bhilwara.
Ram Chandra Dhenwal : Collector, Tonk.
Prakash Chand Pawan : Collector, Sawai Madhopur.
Mahesh Chandra Sharma : Collector, Bundi.
Dinesh Chand Jain : Collector, Hanumangarh.
Muktananad Agarwal : Collector, Churu.
Prakash Rajpurohit : Collector, Alwar.
Anupama Jorwal: Collector, Jaisalmer.
Sandesh Nayak : Collector, Bharatpur.
Gaurav Aggarwal : Chief Executive Officer of Zila Parishad, Karauli.

Dr S B Singh gets extension as DGP, Meghalaya

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The Meghalaya Director General of Police (DGP), Dr SB Singh, who is due to retire on April 30, has been asked by the Ministry of Home Affairs to continue serving as the state’s DGP for another three months in ‘public interest’.

It may be mentioned that extension order came following the inability of the State Security Commission (SCC) to hold a meeting to discuss the appointment of the new DGP. Recently, Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma said that the SSC was yet to hold its sitting as the Commission is yet to have a member from the High Court.

Earlier, prior to the February 27 Assembly elections in the state, the current DGP had already turned down the six month extension period, which is given for retiring DGPs.

It may be mentioned that during the last three years, the state police force under the leadership of three police chiefs — Peter James Haneman, Rajiv Mehta and the current DGP Dr S B Singh ‘successfully’ managed to break the backbone of militancy and contain insurgency in the Garo Hills.

Dr Singh was appointed as the full-fledged DGP of Meghalaya on March 2017. He is 1986 batch IPS officer of AM cadre.

D B Gupta appointed new Chief Secretary of Rajasthan

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Jaipur: The Rajasthan government on Monday appointed D B Gupta as the chief secretary of the state.The 1983-batch officer has replaced N C Goyal who headed the state bureaucracy for just four months, the shortest tenure of a chief secretary in the state.

The government had sought permission from the central government to extend the tenure of current chief secretary N C Goyal for three months, but it didn’t receive the nod. Gupta was additional chief secretary (ACS), finance.

In the seniority list, there were two other IAS officers – Subhash Chandra Garg and Ashok Singhavi. While Garg is currently posted in Delhi, Singhavi’s name had come up in a mining corruption case. For this reason, D B Gupta was the front runner for the top post in the state bureaucracy.

D B Gupta has worked in the state bureaucracy in various capacities. He had been ACS, infrastructure and PWD and principal secretary, PWD, UDH, Agriculture, Planning, Devasthan and Urban Governance. He has also been JDA commissioner. He will retire in 2020.

66 IPS officials have pending criminal cases

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Those who are designated to curb and control crime are carrying criminal cases on their head. Yes, you read it right. There are atleast 16 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers in the country against whom criminal cases are pending. This was revealed in a RTI query by social activist Nutan Thakur.

According to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Rajasthan tops the chart with the highest number of criminal cases pending against 13 IPS officials of the state.

Tamil Nadu and Gujarat follows the desert state with eight and seven IPS officers respectively facing criminal cases against them. Four IPS officers of the Union Territory (UT) cadre and four IPS officers from small states of Manipur and Tripura also have criminal cases pending against them.

One IPS officer each from Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Sikkim and Uttar Pradesh among others, also facing criminal cases.

As per the MHA report, no IPS officer from Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Telangana have criminal cases pending against them.

It is not out of tune to mention here that as many as 139 corruption and criminal cases have been registered against bureaucrats, diplomats and revenue officers since January 2014 till last November.

CBI has registered these 139 cases against officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS), Indian Revenue Service (IRS) and Indian Foreign Service (IFS) during January 2014 and November 2017. Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh recently replied in Lok Sabha.

Hyderabad Police to go paperless

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Hyderabad Police, in an effort to save environment, has decide to move away from paper and adopt all the functioning of its police stations with an e-software. This initiative will start from May 1, according to the Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar. He emphasised the importance of doing our bits to save environment by saving trees. The software is called ‘E-office’.

All officers of the ranks of Inspectors, Station House Officers (SHOs), and some Sub-Inspectors along with all senior officials are trained in the functioning of the ‘E-office’ through workshops. The idea is to move all the files through e-mail and other digital formats.

This initiative of Hyderabad city police will potentially save more than 1 lakh trees. It will also ensure better transparency, making pending cases visible through dashboards.

THE NEXT CABINET SECRETARY – TOUGH JOB FOR NAMO

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Cabinet Secretary PK Sinha’s extended term will end on June 12. Sinha was appointed as cabinet secretary for a fixed term of two years in 2015 and was given an extension in 2017. Now that his tenure ends in the month of June this year, the question doing round the corner is who will be the next top civil servant? Will the principle of seniority be again in the priority as the government begin it’s hunt to for a new Cabinet Secretary?

Among other probables, there is a possibility that Sinha, an Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS officer, may be given another extension as we all know, two of Sinha’s predecessors, KM Chandrasekhar (2007-11) and Ajit K Seth (2011-15) got four years each. But this could may come out to be only a speculation because the government did not extend the tenure of foreign secretary S Jaishankar in January.

Now, if P.K. Sinha doesn’t get an extension, who all are the probables for the top post? Situation predicts that the new CS is likely to be from the 1980 or 1981 batch of IAS and picking a younger officer from the 1982 batch may boomerang for the government and it may create flutter in the rank & file of the bureaucracy. So, the prime minister has to do some brainstorming session with his trusted lieutenants before picking a name for the top beaurocrat.

1981 batch officer Rajive Kumar also figures in the list because the way he was picked as UP chief secretary after BJP won the state speaks about his political clout.

Commerce Secretary and the only woman contender Rita A Teaotia name is also being discussed for the top civil servant position.

The senior most of the lot Petroleum Secretary, Kapil Dev Tripathy, stands a good chance as he would be the last one from the 1980 batch to retire. This simple fact may boost his prospect. However, Union I&B Secretary Narendra Kumar Sinha is ahead of Tripathy on the seniority list, but he would retire 13 days ahead of the completion of PK Sinha’s tenure in the month of June.

HRD Secretary Anil Swarup and Civil Aviation Secretary Rajiv Nayan Choubey also feature on the list of probables.

To top it all, many in the power corridors speculate that PM Narendra Modi, may handpick Adhia as they had a working relationship right from Modi’s Gujarat days. However, NaMo administration remains unpredictable in its selection of top officers. So even if Adhia is seen as a strong arm of the administration, one can never be sure about his appointment to the top post.

4 IAS officers transferred in MP

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As many as four IAS officers have been transferred in Madhya Pradesh.

The names of the officers and their new postings are as follows:

1. Mrs Uma Maheshwari : Additional Collector, Katni.
2. Sanjiv Kumar Jha : Secretary, Human Rights Commission, Bhopal.
3. S.N Mishra : Additional charge of Director, Tribal Research and Development institute, Bhopal.
4. Anup Kumar Singh : CEO, Bhind Zilla Panchayat.

2 IAS officers transferred in Haryana

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Haryana goverment has issued transfer and posting orders of two IAS officers on friday with immediate effect.

1. Devendra Singh (IAS:1987:HY), Additional Chief Secretary, Electronics and Information Technology, Civil Aviation, Envoirment, Administrative Reforms Departments and Member Secretary,Haryana Governance Reforms Authority has been posted as Additional Chief Secretary, Industries and Commerce Department, against a vacant post.

He will also look after the work of Additional Chief Secretary, Civil Aviation, Environment, Administrative Reforms Department and Member Secretary, Haryana Governance Reform Authority.
2. Ankur Gupta (IAS:1992:HY), Chief Electoral Officer and Principal Secretary, Election Department has been given the additional charge of Principal Secretary,Electronics and Information Technology.

45 IAS officers transferred in Bihar

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In a major bureaucratic resuffle Bihar goverment has transferred 45 IAS officers.

The names of the officers and their new postings are as follows:

1. Ravi Manubhai Parmar : Principal Secretary, Tourism.
2. Mayank Warvade : CMD, Bihar State Bridge Construction Corporation Limited.
3. Dr. Pratima Satish Kumar : Secretary, Commercial Taxes.
4. Anupam Kumar : Director, Information and Public Relation.
5. Radheyshyam Sah : Additional Secretary, Health.
6. Adesh Titarmare : Transport Commissioner.
7. Dharmendra Singh : Director, Planning and Traning, Labour Redsources.
8. Pradeep Kumar : Prosecution Director, Home.
9. Ishawar Chandra Sinha : Joint Secretary , Home.
10. Jai Singh : Director, Land Record.
11. Vinod Singh Gunjiyal : Director, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries.
12. Dinesh Kumar : Director, Consumer Protection, Food.
13. Rajeshwar Prasad Singh : Director, Economics and Statistics.
14. Uday Kumar Singh : Addtional Secretary, Tourism.
15. Sanjay Kumar Singh : MD, Bihar Medical Services Infrastracture Development.
16. M. Ramchandradu : Additional Secretary, Disaster Management.
17. Kaushal Kishore : Joint Secretary, Health.———-
18. Rachna Patil : Director, Coorparative Societies.
19. Raj Kumar : Director, Social Security.
20. Karuna Kumari : Additional Executive Director, State Health Elementry Education.
21. Mithilesh Mishra : IG, Jail, Home.
22. Arvind Kumar Verma : Director, Elementry Education.
23. Amit Kumar : Joint Secretary, GAD.
24. Mrs. Punam : DM, Katihar.
25. Anirudhd Kumar : DM, Khagadia.
26. Chandrashekhar Singh : DM, Samastipur.
27. Arshad Aziz : DM Shivhar.
28. Shobhendra Kumar : DM, Lakhisrai.
29. Mohammad Sohai : DM, Muzaffarpur.
30. Pranav Kumar : DM, Bhagalpur.
31. Dr. Ranjit Kumar Singh : DM, Sitamarhi.
32. Rajiv Roshan : DM, Vaishali, Hajipur.
33. Animesh Kumar Parashar : DM, Gopalganj.
34. Mahendra Kumar : DM, Kisanganj.
35. Rahul Kumar : DM, Begusrai.
36. Raghavendra Singh : DM, Buxor.
37. Yogendra Singh : DM, Shekhpura.
38. Naval Kishore Chaudhary : DM, Kaimur, Bhabhua.
39. Surat Kumar Sen : DM, Saran, Chhapra.
40. Mrs Shailja Sharma : DM, Sahrsa.
41. Dharmendra Kumar : DM, Jamui.
42. Navdeep Shukla : DM, Madhepura.
43. Anand Sharma : DM, Munger.
44. Suharsh Bhagat : SDOP, Patna Sadar.
45. Divesh Sehra : Special Secretary, Road Development.

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