The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday (07.10.2024) issued transfer and posting orders for three IAS officers.
The names of the officers and their postings are as follows;
Brajesh Narayan Singh (IAS-SCS:2009), Special Secretary, Agriculture Production Commissioner Branch, has been transferred and posted as In-charge Commissioner and Registrar, Cooperative Societies, UP.
Rajesh Prakash (IAS-SCS:2009), Additional Commissioner, National Capital Region (NCR), Ghaziabad, has been transferred and posted as In-charge DG, Fisheries.
Rajesh Kumar (IAS-SCS:2018), Additional Commissioner, Agra Division, Agra, has been given additional charge of Registrar of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra.
The Uttar Pradesh government has promoted 24 PPS officers to the IPS cadre. During the meeting of the Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC), the names of 30 PPS officers were considered, out of which 24 were selected for promotion to IPS.
All the promoted officers belong to the 1995 and 1996 PPS batches. The meeting was attended by officers from the Union Public Service Commission, the Chief Secretary, the Additional Chief Secretary (Home), and the DGP.
The bureaucratic circles in Madhya Pradesh are abuzz with excitement and fear after the High Court lambasted a senior IAS officer for dereliction and asked him to resign. The High Court condemned the attitude of senior IAS officer Sanjay Dubey (IAS:1993:MP) for not obeying its order passed more than six months back. The High Court remarked that such an officer should leave the service. Dubey is currently posted as an Additional Chief Secretary in the General Administration Department (GAD) and was earlier serving in the home department in the similar capacity.
The court had ordered the promotion of a police officer in March this year, but the officer is yet to be promoted. After being denied promotion despite the court order, police officer Vijay Punj moved the High Court by filing a contempt petition against Sanjay Dubey. While hearing the contempt petition, the HC asked Dubey if he could not implement its order during such a long time, he should resign from the service. Further, the court gave him one last opportunity to comply with the order.
The contempt petition is being heard by Justice Dwarka Dhish Bansal of the MP High Court. The court’s grave remark has sent shockwaves in the state bureaucracy. What invited the court’s wrath is the fact that the petitioner police officer is retiring from his service in this month.
IPS officer Akhil Chaudhary (IPS:2012:PB) has been appointed as Superintendent of Police (SP) in Bureau of Police Research & Development (BPR&D) for five years. According to an order issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs, the competent authority has approved the appointment of Mr. Chaudhary to the post on deputation basis for five years from the date of assumption of the charge of the post or until further orders, whichever is earlier.
Presently, Akhil is serving as Assistant IG Personnel-II, CPO, Punjab.
The Ministry of Home Affairs on October 4 appointed three IPS officers as Assistant Directors in Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (SVPNPA), Hyderabad, for five years. Among them, two are from Telangana cadre and one is from Kerala cadre.
Kamleshwar Shingenavar (IPS:2012:TG)
Rohini Priyadarshini (IPS:2012:TG)
Arvind Sukumar (IPS:2016:KL)
They all have been appointed on usual terms and conditions of deputation for five years from the date of assumption of charge of the post or until further orders, whichever is earlier.
Senior diplomat Ajit Vinayak Gupte (IFS:1991) was on Monday (07.10.2024) appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Federal Republic of Germany. Presently, he is serving as Ambassador of India to Egypt and is expected to take up the assignment shortly.
In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said,”Shri Ajit Vinayak Gupte (IFS: 1991), presently Ambassador of India to Egypt, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Federal Republic of Germany.”
“He is expected to take up the assignment shortly,” the statement added.
Before being appointed as Envoy to Egypt, he was Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Denmark, where he served from November 2017 to March 2021.
Looking at Mr. Gupte’s career, he has handled China in various capacities, including as Under Secretary (China) from 1995 to 1998, and during his postings in Hong Kong from 1998 to 2000, and Beijing from 2000 to 2004. He also gained extensive experience in India’s neighborhood, serving in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 2004 to 2008 as First Secretary/Counsellor.
Gupte also served in the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) as Deputy Director General from 2008 to 2010. Following that, he was Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of India in Berlin from 2010 to 2014, during which time he also served as Chargé d’Affaires for 9 months. He held the post of Joint Secretary (Haj) for a year and later served as Joint Secretary (Development Partnership Administration), handling Lines of Credit for all countries, including India’s neighbors and Africa, from 2015 to 2017.
Senior diplomat Sanjeev Kumar Singla (IFS:1997) was on Monday (07.10.2024) appointed as the next Ambassador of India to France. Presently, he is serving as Ambassador of India to Israel and is expected to take up the assignment shortly.
In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said,” Shri Sanjeev Kumar Singla (IFS:1997), presently Ambassador of India to Israel, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to France.”
“He is expected to take up the assignment shortly,” the statement added.
Singla was appointed as India’s Ambassador to Israel on July 19, 2019. When Narendra Modi first became Prime Minister in 2014, Singla served as his Private Secretary (PS). Prior to this role, he was posted at the Indian Embassy in Tel Aviv.
Singla has served in several capacities at the Indian missions in Paris (France), Dhaka (Bangladesh) and Geneva (Switzerland). He has also served in crucial positions at the US desk in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), and as the Director at the foreign secretary’s office.
Rajiv Ashok has been selected for appointment as Managing Director (MD), National Handloom Development Corporation (NHDC) Limited at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on October 07, 2024. Presently, he is serving as Managing Director, North Eastern Regional Agricultural Marketing Corporation (NERAMAC) Limited.
He will be appointed to the post of Managing Director after receiving vigilance clearances and approval from the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.
The following 5 applicants were interviewed in the selection meeting:
The government of India has finally announced the rollback of its 2019 decision to merge eight railway services into one Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS). The announcement of demerger was made on October 5, thus ending almost five years of confusion and practical difficulties faced in the recruitment of the railway officers.
Now the recruitment of the railway officers will be done through two different examinations – the Civil Services Examination (CSE) for non-technical posts and Engineering Services Examination (ESE) for technical posts.
The Centre had introduced the merger policy in 2019 for recruitments of the railway officers by which eight services were merged into a single civil service, the Indian Railway Management Service and the recruitments of officers for both technical and non-technical posts were being made only through the Civil Services Examination (CSE). But soon it was realized that the merger decision was ill-advised that only created confusion and difficulties in finding suitable manpower for technical posts. It led the Union Government to announce the rollback and restore the old system of recruitments through two separate examinations conducted by the Union Public Service Commission.
The central government on Saturday (05.10.2024) appointed Punjab cadre IAS officer Amit Kumar (IAS:2008:PB) as the Commissioner of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation for three years.
According to order issued by DoPT, “The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the proposal of the Ministry of Home Affairs for the appointment of Amit Kumar, IAS (PB-2008) to the post of the Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, UT of Chandigarh on Inter-Cadre deputation from Punjab Cadre to AGMUT Cadre, for a period of three years or until further orders, whichever is earlier.”
Kumar is currently serving as Director, Rural Development and Panchayat Department in Punjab.
The post of the Chandigarh MC Commissioner was lying vacant since the term of previous Commissioner Anindita Mitra (IAS:1007:PB) ended on August 22. Subsequently, Chandigarh Deputy Commissioner Vinay Pratap Singh (IAS:2011:HY) was given additional charge of Chandigarh MC Commissioner.
Interestingly, almost a month after Anindita Mitra was relieved from the Chandigarh Administration, the ACC on September 22 approved three months extension to her. Earlier, the UT Administration had written to the central government to extend Mitra’s tenure for three months, but when no communication was received in the matter, she was relieved from post on August 22.
The UT Administration had sent a panel of three Punjab cadre IAS officers to the MHA for the post of Commissioner, Chandigarh Municipal Corporation. They shortlisted officers were; Amit Kumar (IAS:2008:PB), Rambir (IAS:2009:PB) and Girish Dayalan (IAS:2011:PB).
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