IAS Officers retained with mutual pact

Hyderabad: The Centre-appointed Prathyush Sinha Committee began the process with allotment of senior IAS officer to AP instead of Telangana as announced earlier. However, the Chief Secretaries and DGPs of both the states were retained and allotted to the same states following mutual cooperation between both the governments.

With this, AP and Telangana chief secretaries, Mr I.Y.R. Krishna Rao and Dr Rajiv Sharma, and DGPs Mr J.V. Ramudu and Mr Anurag Sharma, will continue to serve in their existing positions. The “provisional allotment list” has been posted on the website and objections, if any, can be made till August 29. The final allotment is expected to be made on September 2.

Another controversy also cropped up with the committee making public the “sealed cover options” given by officers to choose their state.

IAS officers R. Bhattacharya, Chandana Khan, A.K. Parida, S.P. Singh, B.P. Acharya, Bhanwar Lal, S.K. Joshi, Nilam Sawhney, Ajay Mishra, Veena Ish, Suthirtha Bhattacharya, Suresh Chanda, Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, Aditya Nath Das, Shalini Mishra, Sunil Sharma, Harpreet Singh, Sanjay Jaju, Praveen Prakash, Navin Mittal and S.A.M. Rizvi have been allotted to Telangana.

IAS officers R.P. Watal, Satyanarayana Mohanty, S.P. Tucker, S.K. Sinha, Lingaraj Panigrahi, Preeti Sudan, Randeep Sudan, Binoy Kumar, Rajeev Acharya, A.C. Punetha, A.R. Sukumar, A.P. Sawhney, Sameer Sharma, Manmohan Singh, Chitra Ramachandran, J.C. Sharma, Abhay Tripathi, Satish Chandra, Poonam Malakondaiah, Adhar Sinha, Somesh Kumar, Shashank Goel, Sumita Dawra, Ajay Jain, Jayesh Ranjan, Vikas Raj, G.K. Dwivedi, Lav Aggarwal, Peeyush Kumar, Pravin Kumar and others have been allotted to AP.