Centre transfers UT adviser Manoj Parida to Delhi

CHANDIGARH: The appointments committee of the cabinet on Thursday posted UT adviser Manoj Parida, a 1986-batch Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre IAS officer, as chairman, National Authority Chemical Weapons Convention.
Parida, who had joined as the UT adviser in December 2018, said, “I am getting a chance to serve in the government of India at secretary level. I am happy that coronavirus is under control in Chandigarh when I am leaving.”
After Parida’s transfer order reached Chandigarh on Thursday evening, names for his replacement started doing the rounds.
Sources said the names that were being considered were: 1988-batch AGMUT cadre officer Renu Sharma, presently posted as additional chief secretary in Delhi; 1988-batch AGMUT cadre officer Satya Gopal, presently posted as additional chief secretary in Delhi who had also served in the UT administration as chairman of the Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB); 1991-batch IAS officers Amit Yadav and Puneet Kumar Goel; 1992-batch AGMUT cadre officer Ashwani Kumar, presently posted as Puducherry chief secretary; and 1989-batch officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre Maninder Singh Bains, who had also served in Chandigarh as CHB chairman.
Sources said, “Parida is likely to leave the charge next week. Till the joining of the new adviser, senior-most IAS officer in the administration Arun Kumar Gupta, who is at present UT home secretary, would get the additional charge.”