VK Singh, the Particular Chief Secretary to Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, will retire on Friday, vacating the highest publish within the Chief Minister’s Workplace.
The 1990-batch Punjab cadre IAS officer, who was repatriated to the mother or father cadre in November final 12 months and appointed as Particular Principal Secretary to the CM, was given a farewell on Thursday.
The federal government has but to search out his substitute, making a vacuum within the state paperwork. After the retirement of VK Singh’s predecessor, A Venu Prasad, in July final 12 months, the federal government took till December to fill the emptiness, counting on current officers within the interim.
Amid hypothesis that VK Singh is perhaps given an extension, he had cleared all pending recordsdata from his workplace by Thursday.
Following his retirement, Tejveer Singh, a 1994-batch IAS officer, is reportedly in competition for the coveted publish within the CMO. Nevertheless, no official orders have been issued up to now.
Earlier than his repatriation to Punjab, VK Singh had been on deputation to the Centre since October 2017, serving as Secretary within the Division of Ex-Servicemen Welfare below the Ministry of Defence.
VK Singh is three years senior to Chief Secretary Anurag Verma, a 1993-batch IAS officer, and two years senior to KAP Sinha, the incumbent Chief Secretary.
The Punjab authorities continues to grapple with a scarcity of skilled officers within the administration. The state has two officers, Anirudh Tewari and Anurag Verma, who’ve beforehand served as Chief Secretaries. Tewari is at the moment posted at MGSIPA, whereas Verma now serves as Monetary Commissioner (Income).
Anirudh Tewari, a 1990-batch officer, is ready to retire on April 30, 2027. Different senior officers embrace Sarvjit Singh and Raji P Shrivastava, each from the 1992 batch. KAP Sinha, additionally from the 1992 batch, has already been appointed as Chief Secretary.
