Retiredd IAS officer makes way for retired IRS officer as Punjab RERA chief

As per the notification of his appointment, his assignment shall beryllium taxable to the last result of CWP No. 24634 of 2024 titled arsenic Malwinder Singh Jaggi Vs State of Punjab. Jaggi, a 2005-batch IAS officer, has moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court for not considering him to beryllium eligible for the post. Jaggi is presently posted arsenic administrative secretary, accusation and nationalist relations. The authorities had invited applications for filling the station of president and Jaggi was 1 of the applicants. Goyal was appointed connected the ground of these caller applications.

Jaggi had moved the High Court past period erstwhile his exertion was rejected stating that helium did not fuilfil the eligibility criteria. After the resignation of Satya Gopal, the authorities had done supersession of RERA and Jaggi was made the authorization of RERA. At that time, Goyal had proceeded connected leave. Later, the authorities invited applications for filling the post.

A root said that the authorities had received 16 applications and shortlisted 2 candidates: Goyal and different retired IRS officer, Parneet Sachdeva, who is chairperson of Haryana RERA. Later, Goyal was appointed the Punjab RERA chief.

The tenure of the Punjab RERA chairperson shall beryllium 5 years oregon till attaining the property of sixty-five years, whichever is earlier.

Goyal is an IRS serviceman of 1989 batch. He graduated from Jagraon and passed LLB & LLM from Panjab University, Chandigarh. He served arsenic an IRS serviceman successful Chandigarh and the states of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal astatine assorted important positions. He has served arsenic zonal manager of Narcotics Control Bureau, Chandigarh, for much than 5 years looking aft Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh with further complaint of J&K too. He wrote books connected the NDPS Act successful Punjabi, Hindi and English portion moving arsenic zonal director, NCB, successful Chandigarh. He was appointed TIWB (Tax Inspectors Without Borders) by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) for Seychelles successful 2018 and worked till superannuation.

In the past mates of months, builders person been having issues with RERA that the process to acceptable up a colony had started taking precise agelong and the files did not move.

After the assignment of Satya Gopal arsenic RERA chief, and Goyal arsenic its subordinate 2 years ago, the Opposition had criticised the AAP authorities successful the state. After criticism, the authorities had appointed 2 Punjabis connected 2 much coveted posts. While Senior Advocate and Additional Advocate General Inderpal Singh Dhanna, considered adjacent to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, was appointed main accusation commissioner, retired IPS serviceman Jatinder Aulakh was appointed arsenic PPSC chairman.

However, this was not a caller improvement for the state. During erstwhile CM Amarinder Singh’s regime, the authorities came successful for disapproval for appointing retired officers connected posts that could beryllium fixed to governmental leaders.