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Rautela's transfer to Uttarakhand surprises officials

By IndianMandarins- 21 Mar 2018
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rautelas-transfer-to-uttarakhand-surprises-officialsThe Central government shifted Rajeeve Rautela, a promotee IAS officers, to Uttarakhand two days after he was promoted and moved from the post of Gorakhpur district magistrate to the post of divisional commissioner of Devipatan in Uttar Pradesh. Rautela reportedly triggered a controversy a controversy last week by allegedly preventing mediapersons from accessing the counting centre while the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha bypoll was in progress. Following the reorganisation of Uttar Pradesh, Rautela's cadre was allocated Uttarakhand - a decision he had challenged and got stayed by the HC. The stay was lifted in August 2016. However, the Centre did not issue a formal order regarding the final allocation of Rautela's cadre until now. The order was issued on March 16, two days after the bypoll results but was communicated on Monday to the two chief secretaries of the states concerned. Rautela is a Provincial Civil Service (PCS) officer of the 1982-batch and was promoted to the Indian Administrative Services in 2002. He was made the Gorakhpur DM soon after Adityanath took over as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh in March last year. "The central government drawing powers conferred under Section 73(2) of the UP Reorganisation Act-2000 hereby allocates Shri Rajeev Rautela, who was working in connection with the affairs of government of Uttar Pradesh in the cadre of Provincial Civil Services (Executive Branch) immediately before 09.11.2000 and was recommended for allocation to Uttarakhand by the State Advisory Committee [S.No.12 Part (V)] in its meeting dated 04.12.2002, to Uttarakhand with effect from 09.11.2000," the Union Personnel Ministry order stated.

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