The Ministry of Residence Affairs (MHA) on Wednesday appointed former Andaman chief secretary Keshav Chandra as the brand new chairperson of the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC).
A 1995-batch Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory (AGMUT) cadre IAS officer, Chandra takes over from former Delhi chief secretary Naresh Kumar, whose tenure on the helm of the civic physique that administers municipal providers to Lutyens Delhi, got here to an finish in August this yr.
Sources stated Chandra’s switch to the nationwide capital was the primary amongst a number of important postings throughout the central AGMUT pool of bureaucrats simply across the nook.
In one other order, the MHA appointed 1997-batch IAS officer Dr V Candavelou as the brand new chief secretary of Goa, filling one out of three such vacancies throughout the board. Candavelou takes over from 1991-batch AGMUT cadre IAS officer Puneet Kumar Goel following his switch to the Nationwide Fee for Scheduled Tribes earlier this month.
In the meantime, senior IAS officers from the 1992 to 1997 batches of the service are within the operating for important posts. These embrace secretary, Division of Personnel and Coaching, after the put up fell vacant following the repatriation of 1989-batch Haryana cadre IAS officer Vivek Joshi to his father or mother cadre and the chief secretary posts in Mizoram and Andaman.
In response to bureaucratic sources, appointments to those posts have been “doubtless from officers presently serving in Delhi” both on the Centre or within the Delhi authorities.
