Sudhansh Pant’s abrupt recall to Centre comes after months of strife with the Rajasthan CMO, prompting Delhi to intervene. Pant is now secretary in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
Addl chief secy Rajesh Rajora replaced by 1993-batch IAS officer Neeraj Mandloi. Latest rejig, involving 10 IAS officers, had been under consideration for a month, it is learnt.
One section of the party is backing the medical officer, while some officials from Chief Minister’s Office siding with the DM. 'It’s turning into a CM office-vs-dy CM conflict,' sources say.
Though his share of responsibilities is reduced slightly, Khullar still oversees 16 departments—the maximum—thereby underscoring his influence in Saini administration.
Bhandari, who earlier served as Khattar's publicity adviser, also faces investigation in connection with cross-voting by Himachal Congress MLAs in Rajya Sabha poll last year.
As chief principal secretary, he will oversee almost all portfolios held by CM, will also be involved with departments of most other Haryana ministers. In Khattar’s second CMO, he held 17 departments.
Additional chief secretary to Madhya Pradesh chief minister Rajesh Rajora has been entrusted with overseeing 15 tasks including policy issues, cabinet and ministerial work.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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