Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has again urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to clear the inter-cadre deputation of Indian Forest Service officer and Magsaysay Award winner Sanjiv Chaturvedi. In a letter dated July 3, he said he was interested in appointing Chaturvedi as his OSD for improving the lot of the people of NCT of Delhi. Citing extant rules and regulations that facilitate the appointment of Chaturvedi as per his request, the Delhi CM said that since the Appointments Committee of Cabinet is the competent authority to deal with the matter, the inter-cadre deputation of Sanjiv be cleared at the earliest. Expressing surprise over the rejection of his earlier request in the matter, he pointed out that as per DoPT instructions, the criteria of cooling-off period was to be exempted for an official to be appointed as personal staff. Kejriwal had first made the request to the Centre in February last year for posting of Chaturvedi as his OSD. The Appointments Committee of Cabinet had recently declined the proposal for inter-cadre deputation of Chaturvedi from Uttarakhand to the GNCT of Delhi, saying he had not complete the mandatory cooling-off period of three years. In the letter dated Kejriwal wrote, "It has been a settled practice of our democratic polity that whenever an officer is required as personal staff by any CM or minister, of any government, the same is deputed accordingly, irrespective of political differences."