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The Yogi administration has canceled the reemployment of nearly 60 senior officers serving in various departments long after their retirement, according to state chief secretary Rahul Bhatnagar. "There were 78 officers on such extensions… there may be even more as full information is still to come in. We have retained only 18 who are handling technical subjects."
Among those shown the door are officers in key departments, such as urban development secretary SP Singh, who was perceived to be close to the erstwhile SP regime. The managing director of UP Power Corporation since 2012, AP Mishra, resigned last week after the first meeting chaired by the power minister Shrikant Sharma, who sought to know why UP was the only state which had not signed the 'Power for All' agreement with the Centre that could assure 24X7 electricity by 2019. Sharma has directed that the agreement be signed by April 15.