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Maharashtra: Hectic parlays starts for new Chief Secretary
By IndianMandarins- 14 Feb 2022
2442Mumbai (14.02.2022): Hectic lobbying for the post of Chief Secretary has begun with acting chief secretary Debashish Chakrabarty set to retire later this month. Some of the names included as frontrunners for the post are additional chief secretaries Manu Kumar Srivastava (IAS: 1986: MH) (home) and Manoj Saunik (IAS: 1987: MH) (finance). Chakrabarty has held the post since November 30, 2021 but will retire on February 28, 2022 and since he has not been appointed as full-time CS, there is no possibility of an extension for him to continue in the post. A lobby headed by a retired chief secretary is batting for Saunik while a group of senior IAS officers is backing Srivastava. One of the three ruling parties and its senior leaders are believably in favour of Saunik. However, Srivastava’s seniority cannot be undermined. Srivastava is slated to retire in April 2023, while Saunik’s retirement is in December next year. J Mukherjee (IAS: 1986: MH) and Ashwani Kumar (IAS: 1987: MH) are the other two additional chief secretaries as senior as Srivastava and Saunik, but they reportedly are not in the reckoning.
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Maharashtra: Hectic parlays starts for new Chief Secretary
By IndianMandarins - 2022-02-14 10:36:00
Mumbai (14.02.2022): Hectic lobbying for the post of Chief Secretary has begun with acting chief secretary Debashish Chakrabarty set to retire later this month. Some of the names included as frontrunners for the post are additional chief secretaries Manu Kumar Srivastava (IAS: 1986: MH) (home) and Manoj Saunik (IAS: 1987: MH) (finance).
Chakrabarty has held the post since November 30, 2021 but will retire on February 28, 2022 and since he has not been appointed as full-time CS, there is no possibility of an extension for him to continue in the post.
A lobby headed by a retired chief secretary is batting for Saunik while a group of senior IAS officers is backing Srivastava. One of the three ruling parties and its senior leaders are believably in favour of Saunik. However, Srivastava’s seniority cannot be undermined.
Srivastava is slated to retire in April 2023, while Saunik’s retirement is in December next year. J Mukherjee (IAS: 1986: MH) and Ashwani Kumar (IAS: 1987: MH) are the other two additional chief secretaries as senior as Srivastava and Saunik, but they reportedly are not in the reckoning.
