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| CM overrules Chief Secretary's advice, relieves IAS officer | | J&K's administrative head caught on wrong foot! | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Sept 22: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah bypassed counsel of Chief Secretary Madhav Lal and allowed 1980 batch IAS officer P.G. Dhar Chakraborti to continue serving in New Delhi till retirement.
Sources said that Chakraborti, a J&K cadre officer of 1980 batch, whose services were requisitioned by the state government after his term in government of India had expired on March 31, 2011, has been allowed by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, on his own, to return to union government. He has now joined the inter-state council as Advisor in the rank of Additional Secretary to union government.
Sources explained that there was a great deal of tussle between the Chief Secretary and Chakra-borti before this issue could be resolved in latter's favour. As we have already reported, Chakra-borti was from the very beginning quite reluctant to come back to Jammu and Kashmir. He shown reluctance in returning to the state on the grounds that first, has has hardly two years of service left before he retires in October 2013; and second, because his wife is suffering from life-threatening illness.
Sources said that while Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had full sympathy when Chakraborti apprised him of these facts, Chief Secretary in parallel is learnt to have vitiated the case by getting the Chief Minister to write to the Prime Minister for sending Chakraborti back to Jammu and Kashmir. They added that despite unfavorable circumstances and without Chief Minister's approval, Chakra-borti still managed to get his name recommended to union government.
Sources said that after getting a posting in union government, Chakraborti asked the government to be relieved. Madhav Lal, according to sources, to hide his earlier advice of getting this officer back in the Cadre, managed to convince 'high-tech' Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to refuse permission to relieve Chakraborti. The said IAS officer continued to plead his inability to "oblige" Chief Secretary and join back in the state, where government had by then decided to post him as Chairman J&K Special Tribunal.
However, Chief Secretary Madhav Lal convinced Chief Minister Omar Abdullah about the 'dire need to get Chakraborti' back to the state. He even went to the extent of getting order issued from the Chief Minister to post Chakraborti as Principal Resident Commissioner, J&K House in New Delhi.
When Chakraborti refused to join even this posting, and represented to Chief Minister that he already had an officer senior to him in Sonali Kumar (IAS 1979) to take over the assignment of PRC, sources disclosed that Madhav Lal had no answer. Chakraborti further pointed out that if he doesn't join the government of India now, it would result in his "black listing" from all future central government assignments, added the sources.
It has been reliably learnt that Chief Minister, negating all the advice and counsel of Chief Secretary, in the light of these facts being brought to his notice by 1980 batch IAS officer P.G. Dhar Chakraborti overruled the Chief Secretary and relieved Chakraborti, who happily joined the Inter-State Council the very next day.
It needs to be mentioned here that 22 IAS officers of Jammu and Kashmir cadre are presently outside the state either on deputation or on leave or on an irrelevant posting. These include Anil Goswami, Pankaj Jain, Khurshid Ganai, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Lokesh Dutt Jha, Pradeep Tripathi, Sandeep Nayak, Arun Mehta, Ashok Kumar Parmar, Dheeraj Gupta, Navin Kumar Choudhary, Rohit Kansal, Shalindera Kumar, Farooq Ahmed Factoo, Hirdesh Kumar Singh, Mandeep Kaur, Parvez Dewan, Arun Kumar, Sonali Kumar, Ashok Angurana, Bipul Pathak and P.G. Dhar Chakraborty. |
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