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| Keshwan relieved, Tiwari takes over as PCCF | | | SRINAGAR: Government of Jammu & Kashmir today relieved senior IFS officer, Jagdish Keshwan, as Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF), subsequent to his appointment as Additional Director General of Wildlife in union Ministry of Environment and Forest. According to Government Order No: 400-FST issued by Commissioner-Secretary Forest, Shant Manu, seniormost IFS officer, R D Tiwari, of 1977 batch, who has been functioning as Director J&K State Forest Research Institute (SFRI) would be holding additional charge of PCCF till further orders. Tiwari is assuming the additional charge of PCCF on Thursday.
Earlier, in September, two high level screening committees headed by Chief Secretary S S Kapur had cleared R D Tiwari, P C Kapoor and Vinod Ranjan for the grade of PCCF. With this, as many as four IFS officers, including Project Chief Participatory Watershed Management Programme Irshad Ahmed Khan, will be holding the rank of PCCF in J&K. Screening Committees have also cleared a number of IFS officers for their next grade of additional PCCF, CCF and CF.
State Cabinet is likely to confirm recommendations of the Screening Committees, headed by Chief Secretary, in its next meeting, most probably on October 26th, as also to confirm R D Tiwari as the new PCCF. Since most of the top and middle rung officers in Forest and related departments have been appointed in the last one or two years, bureaucratic sources are not expecting any major reshuffle in the department. They, however, do not rule out a shake up at the level of Conservators of Forest (CFs) and Divisional Forest Officers (DFOs).
Since no major recruitment of Forestry trained and qualified officers has taken place in J&K in the last over 26 years and successive governments have denied job opportunities to around 600 Forestry graduates and post-graduates, almost all officials in Forest and related departments have been functioning on Stop Gap Arrangement that stands categorically banned by Supreme Court of India. Due to this blessing, Forestors and Range Officers, either related to politicians or paying them bribes, have been functioning as DFOs.
While a junior Range Officer held the charge of Kashmir's largest Territorial Forest Division in Kupwara district, Minister of Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Ali Mohammad Sagar, has reportedly forced the authorities to withdraw charges of corruption against his relative, Abid Nazir, a junior Range Officer, and then got him appointed as incharge DFO in Urban Forestry Division Srinagar. |
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