IAS officer at helm of excise policy case probe shifted to Arunachal, 31 others transferred

These included the excise argumentation lawsuit successful narration to which respective elder AAP leaders, successful summation to erstwhile main curate Arvind Kejriwal, person served clip successful prison. He has been replaced by 2011-batch serviceman Ajay Kumar Bisht, posted arsenic Staff Officer to Delhi Chief Secretary Dharmen-dra, with further complaint of peculiar caput (Vigilance).

Rajasekhar, who was connected the different extremity of respective run-ins betwixt the bureaucracy and the Delhi authorities successful his further capableness arsenic peculiar caput (Services), is the lone serviceman to person been transferred to Arunachal Pradesh from Delhi.

During a statement successful Parliament past twelvemonth connected the GNCTD (Amendment) Bill, 2023, which gave the reins of Services and much teeth to the bureau of the Delhi L-G, Rajasekhar had recovered a notation successful Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s code successful transportation with an alleged effort by the AAP authorities to “break into” a beardown country successful his bureau wherever “sensitive files” related to ongoing investigations against ministers were stored.

Two different IAS officers transferred to Jammu and Kashmir – Nidhi Malik of the 2013 batch and Ram Niwas Sharma of the 2010 batch – were posted successful the MCD and the Delhi government’s labour department, respectively, by the MHA. Bipul Pathak, a 1992-batch serviceman who was posted successful Jammu & Kashmir, on with 2007-batch serviceman Rashmi Singh, person been transferred to Delhi.

The MHA bid besides included the postings of 2006-batch serviceman Saugat Biswas from Arunachal Pradesh to Jammu & Kashmir and that of 2007-batch serviceman Yasha Mudgal, who was transferred from Jammu & Kashmir to Puducherry.

Meanwhile, 31 IAS and DANICS officers were reshuffled pursuing a motion from the Delhi CM-chaired three-member National Capital Civil Service Authority, which holds jurisdiction implicit the transfer, posting and vigilance matters of each civilian servants serving successful the Delhi government.

The astir important among these were the assignment of 2002-batch IAS serviceman Nihkil Kumar arsenic Secretary Revenue-cum-divisional commissioner, 2006-batch IAS serviceman Shilpa Shinde arsenic CEO of the Delhi Jal Board and 2011-batch serviceman Ravi Jha arsenic the excise commissioner.

A elder authoritative termed the transfers arsenic “a important improvement successful totality” and an workout successful “streamlining the narration betwixt the Centre and Delhi” aft a alteration astatine the helm of the bureaucracy astatine some pursuing the assignment of 1989-batch officers Govind Mohan of the Sikkim cadre and Dharmendra of the AGMUT cadre arsenic Union Home Secretary and Delhi main secretary, respectively.