Bhopal: Chief Minister Mohan Yadav, who took cost of the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) authorities in Madhya Pradesh two months in the past, has made main modifications within the state paperwork with 15 IAS officers transferred on Sunday night time, of which 5 have been appointed to the CM’s secretariat.
The reshuffle of 15 IAS officers Sunday comes every week after 18 IAS officers have been transferred by the Yadav authorities.
The most recent switch order issued late Sunday has introduced 2008 batch officer Bharat Yadav because the secretary to the CM. Earlier than his appointment, Sandeep Yadav, a 2000 batch officer, was appointed as commissioner of public relations, whereas Sameer Yadav, a 2002 batch state service police officer, was made in-charge of the CM’s safety in December.
The CM on Sunday roped in Avanish Lavania, a 2009 batch officer and managing director of MP Highway Improvement Company, as his further secretary.
Chandrashekhar Walimbe, a 2010 batch officer, has been elevated as one other further secretary to the CM. He was holding cost of further secretary income and controller of presidency printing and stationery.
Aditi Garg, a 2015 batch officer, and Anshul Gupta, a 2016 batch officer, have been made deputy secretaries within the CM’s secretariat. Garg was the director of well being providers, whereas Gupta has beforehand served because the commissioner of Ujjain Municipal Company.
The modifications come after Yadav picked Raghvendra Kumar Singh, a 1997 batch officer who is taken into account a pro-industries bureaucrat, as his principal secretary. Singh can also be the principal secretary for the division of business coverage and funding promotion. He changed Manish Rastogi, a 1994-batch officer who held the identical submit below former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
In response to these within the know of the event, the checklist issued Sunday night time is seen as Singh enjoying a vital position in appointing the CM’s secretariat with a thrust on creating employment via selling industrial growth within the state.
A senior bureaucrat instructed ThePrint that a minimum of 4 of the 5 officers within the CM’s secretariat have backgrounds in Indian Institutes of Administration (IIMs) and Indian Institutes of Expertise (IITs).
Lavania has performed his B.Tech and M.Tech from IIT Delhi. After coming into the civil providers, he went on to change into a gold medalist in LABSNAA, the executive academy. He’s additionally a recipient of Digital India Award and CM Excellence Award for Public Service Supply. Equally, Walimbe has a B.Tech in Laptop Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.
Gupta had performed his B.Tech and M.Tech in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur, adopted by an MBA from IIM Bangalore.
What additional added to Gupta being picked up for the position in CM’s secretariat is his expertise working in L&T, Wipro Consulting and Goldman Sachs earlier than becoming a member of the civil providers. Whereas Garg, a BA in economics from St Xavier’s in Mumbai, went on to do her Grasp’s from London Faculty of Economics on a Commonwealth Scholarship.
In the meantime, Navneet Kothari, who was the managing director (MD) of MP Industrial Improvement Company Restricted, MD of MP State Industrial Improvement Company Restricted and ex-officio secretary Industrial Coverage and Funding Promotion division, was shunted out as secretary of the fisheries welfare division Sunday. In response to these within the know, he was moved to fisheries after complaints from industries.
An essential growth in Sunday’s order was the appointment of Rastogi, who was given further cost of principal secretary of the Basic Administration Division (GAD) and, extra importantly, because the principal secretary coordination within the chief secretary’s workplace.
Rastogi had earlier served as principal secretary to Chouhan. He was left with no submit for 43 days and subsequently made principal secretary of the jail division on 28 January.
With the federal government nonetheless busy rejigging the paperwork, a number of officers are being saddled with further costs.
An officer requesting anonymity stated, “Officers are being given additional charges with no clarity if the department would remain with them. This is leading to files of departments with additional charges being put on the back burner until full-fledged appointments are done.”
One other officer defined: “Either one should be clearly told that they would continue in a said department or the transfers should be made sooner, and not leave the governance in limbo.”
Nevertheless, a senior BJP chief defined that this isn’t new and “every chief minister wants to pick up their own officers in the system.”
“Since Shivrajji has ruled the state for more than 17 years, a whole lot of officers are his men. Now the new CM has to establish his set-up and he doesn’t want to make any mistakes, which is causing delays in appointments,” he instructed ThePrint.
After IAS officers, the state is gearing up for a reshuffle of IPS officers with CM Yadav holding a gathering with DGP Sudheer Saxena Friday. District collectors are more likely to be transferred after 8 February, in accordance with senior authorities officers.
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18 officers transferred earlier
Of the 18 officers transferred earlier, Yadav moved Neeraj Vashishtha, a senior IAS officer, out of the chief minister’s secretariat and made him a deputy secretary within the authorities.
One other division that noticed main modifications was the general public relations division. The CM changed its commissioner Manish Singh and director Ashutosh Pratap Singh.
In response to sources, officers who’ve labored with Yadav earlier than are being given essential postings.
Citing an instance, they stated {that a} 2015 batch IAS officer Roshan Kumar Singh, who served because the municipal commissioner of Ujjain and subsequently was made the Chief Government Officer (CEO) of Good Metropolis in Bhopal, has now been posted because the director on the division of public relation, changing Ashutosh Pratap Singh.
The transfers additionally affected different key departments corresponding to industries, girls and baby growth, public works, and basic administration.
Sanjay Kumar Shukla, who had the extra cost of principal secretary of industries, was transferred because the principal secretary to the governor. Ramrao Bhonsle, who was the commissioner of ladies and baby growth and oversaw the Ladli Behna Yojana, was moved to the commissioner of the social justice division.
Equally, Sukhveer Singh, who was the principal secretary of the Public Works Division (PWD), was moved to horticulture.
Inside a fortnight of turning into the CM, Yadav, on 2 January, moved Kumar Purshottam, who was the collector of Ujjain when Yadav was an MLA from the district and a minister for increased schooling, to deputy secretary of the Basic Administration Division (GAD). By January-end, Purshottam was made deputy secretary of the backward caste welfare division.
(Edited by Richa Mishra)
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