The AAP's J&K president was taken into preventive custody after videos circulating on social media purportedly showed him verbally abusing the Doda DM.
Medha Roopam’s appointment as Gautam Buddh Nagar DM comes in the backdrop of a major administrative reshuffle by the UP govt on Monday. A total of 23 IAS officers were transferred.
Lucknow: It wasn't exactly a warm welcome for IAS officer Rinku Singh Rahi on his first day as Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) of Shahjahanpur district....
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.
The concentration of powers concerning both regulation and service provision in one position, that is the district magistrate, is institutionally irrational and administratively inefficient.
Collectors or DMs, as they are interchangeably called, already had several existing powers, which have now been explicitly delineated, or in some cases, significantly enhanced.
Govt order says these officers will now have to mention about increase in investment and CD ratio in their districts in the column for self-appraisal in annual confidential report.
MP govt in June said district magistrates & divisional commissioners would have say in appraisals of IFS officers serving in districts, which the latter said undermined their authority.
UP has 14 women district magistrates, with Bahraich as the jewel in the crown for its all-female administration. Many are driving woman-centric measures, from pink autos to feeding rooms.
In letter to administration, association says order also violates SC ruling that reporting authority can be from outside of dept only for principal chief conservator of forests.
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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