The West Bengal government has forwarded the names of three Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers to the Raj Bhavan as a replacement for Nandini Chakroborty (IAS:1994:WB), who was removed as the Principal Secretary to Governor C.V. Ananda Bose.
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The names which have been forwarded to the office of the governor by the state personnel & administrative reforms department are that of Atri Bhattacharya (IAS:1989:WB), Additional Chief Secretary of Sundarban Affairs Department, Barun Kumar Roy (IAS:1992:WB), Additional Chief Secretary of Labour Department, and Ajit Ranjan Bardhan (IAS:1989:WB), Additional Chief Secretary of North Bengal Department.
Recently, the Governor House asked for the replacement of the erstwhile Principal Secretary to the governor Nandini Chakroborty. It had also complained against Chakroborty of misleading the state secretariat about the functioning of the Governor House.
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After initial hesitations the state personnel & administrative reforms department, on February 15, had, though ordered for Chakroborty’s transfer, not named her replacement. Chakroborty is currently the Principal Secretary of Tourism Department.
