NEW DELHI: The Centre on Saturday repatriated 1989 batch IAS officer and personnel department secretary Vivek Joshi to his parent Haryana cadre where he is set to be appointed as the next chief secretary.
The appointments committee of cabinet (ACC) also approved posting of eight additional secretary level officers, including Chhattisgarh cadre IAS and former director general of National Testing Agency Subodh Kumar Singh as additional secretary and financial adviser in the steel ministry. The 1997 batch officer was ousted as the NTA chief in June amid controversy over alleged irregularities in NEET and NET exams and put on compulsory wait. The Supreme Court has concluded that the data provided by NTA and others did not substantiate claims of a systemic leak or widespread fraud sufficient to invalidate the exam results.
In the case of repatriation of Joshi, the ACC in its order said that he has been repatriated “on request” of Haryana govt. He is the second officer from his batch who has been sent to the state to become chief secretary. Incumbent chief secretary T V S N Prasad is retiring on October 31. With Joshi’s repatriation, now two secretary level posts in DoPT and culture ministry are vacant, which the govt may fill soon. Joshi was appointed DoPT secretary in August.
Though Joshi’s repatriation was waiting to happen, the order came just days after the Uttarakhand High Court issued a notice to the DoPT secretary in a contempt case filed by a forest officer alleging that the secretary wilfully defied a court order to give the record relating to the process and decision making of empanelment of the petitioner at the level of joint secretary.
In recent years, the govt has repatriated many secretaries in the central govt to states and they have been posted as chief secretaries in BJP governed states such as Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha.
The appointments committee of cabinet (ACC) also approved posting of eight additional secretary level officers, including Chhattisgarh cadre IAS and former director general of National Testing Agency Subodh Kumar Singh as additional secretary and financial adviser in the steel ministry. The 1997 batch officer was ousted as the NTA chief in June amid controversy over alleged irregularities in NEET and NET exams and put on compulsory wait. The Supreme Court has concluded that the data provided by NTA and others did not substantiate claims of a systemic leak or widespread fraud sufficient to invalidate the exam results.
In the case of repatriation of Joshi, the ACC in its order said that he has been repatriated “on request” of Haryana govt. He is the second officer from his batch who has been sent to the state to become chief secretary. Incumbent chief secretary T V S N Prasad is retiring on October 31. With Joshi’s repatriation, now two secretary level posts in DoPT and culture ministry are vacant, which the govt may fill soon. Joshi was appointed DoPT secretary in August.
Though Joshi’s repatriation was waiting to happen, the order came just days after the Uttarakhand High Court issued a notice to the DoPT secretary in a contempt case filed by a forest officer alleging that the secretary wilfully defied a court order to give the record relating to the process and decision making of empanelment of the petitioner at the level of joint secretary.
In recent years, the govt has repatriated many secretaries in the central govt to states and they have been posted as chief secretaries in BJP governed states such as Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha.
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