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.
The 4-day camp is held under the ‘Mukhya Mantri Bayu Swasthya Seva’ initiative, with a team of doctors from Cuttack airlifted to the location for specialised treatments including surgeries.
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.
According to government reply in Lok Sabha, the pilot phase of PMIS is being used to test concepts, strategies and systems before a full-scale implementation of the scheme.
Order for 87 MALE drones will be split between 2 Indian firms in 64:36 ratio to ensure there are 2 independent manufacturing lines with at least 60% indigenous components.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
COMMENTS