UP Govt. promotes 13 IAS officers as additionally chief secretary

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UP government on Wednesday promoted 13 IAS officers as additional chief secretary.  The officers promoted are Avneesh Awasthio, principal secretary information, Arun Singhal, Joint secretary GOI, Mahesh Kumar Gupta principal secretary secretariat administration, Leena Nandan joint secretary GOI, Renuka Kumar principal secretary forest and environment, Devasheesh Panda Joint secretary GOI, Sanjeev Kumar Mittal principal secretary finance, Rama Raman commissioner and director handloom and textiles, Sunil Kumar Joint secretary GOI and Jievesh Nandan Joint secretary GOI.

The meeting of the departmental promotion committee (DPC) was held here on Tuesday presided by the chief secretary Rajiv Kumar.  There were 12 names before the committee but it recommended only 10 officers for promotion. The orders were issued on Wednesday following the approval by the chief minister Yogi Adityanath.  The two officers left are Hemant Rao and PV Jaganmohan.  The IAS officers promoted as additional chief secretary are from 1986 and 1`987 batch.  This is for the first time that the officers of two batches have been promoted in one year. This was the long standing demand of the UP IAS officers association.

The promotion of 10 IAS officers to the scale of additional chief secretary has given plenty of option to the state government choose the next chief secretary. The incumbent chief secretary Rajiv Kumar is attaining the age of superannuation on June 30.   With the latest round of promotion the IAS officers from 1982 to 1987 batch are eligible to be selected as the next chief secretary.

Meanwhile the DPC has also recommended the grant of the higher pay scale to 6 senior PCS officers. The orders will be issued as soon the proposal is approved by the chief minister. The six PCS officers will   get the pay scale (Rs 67,000-79,000) of the principal secretary to the government without being inducted to the state cadre of the IAS.  The PCS officers likely to be promoted are Satish Kumar –II additional commissioner Moradabad, Akhilesh Kumar additional commissioner Allahabad, Ram Avtar additional director economics and statistics wing, Amitabh Prakash special secretary housing, Shiv Bhushan Tewari additional commissioner Moradabad, Satyabhan additional administrator Sharda Sahayak command area development authority.