Entire staff of all ex-Ministers withdrawn

Nishikant Khajuria
JAMMU, Jan 14:  Amidst indications that formation of a popular Government in Jammu and Kashmir may take some more time, the Governor’s administration today ordered repatriation of staff, posted in Personal Section of the former Ministers.
These include officers belonging to J&K Secretariat (Gazetted) Service, other Gazetted Services, HoD Cadre, Class IV officials  of  J&K Secretariat (Subordinate) Service,  different PSUs,  Heads of  the Departments, Corporations and  the persons, who were engaged by the General Administration Department on contract to work in Personal Section of then  Ministers.
The officers/officials of the J&K Secretariat Service shall report in the feeding department of the concerned former Ministers, as the case may be, till further order while the officers/officials belonging to HoD cadre, Offices and Corporations shall report back to their parent departments with immediate effect.
The persons, who were engaged by the GAD on contract to work in the Personal Section of the former Ministers, shall be paid salary upto January 7, 2016 only and their period of contract shall stand terminated on the said date, as per the terms and conditions of their engagement.
A formal order in this regard, Government Order No. 26-GAD of 2016, Dated 14-01-2016, was issued today by the General Administration Department.
Pertinent to mention that Governor’s Rule was imposed in Jammu and Kashmir on January 8, following the death of then Chief Minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed after a brief illness on January 7.
Among the repatriated staff, there are 27 officers belonging to J&K Secretariat (Gazetted) Service  and other Gazetted  Services, 11 officers belonging to HoD cadre, 70 Class-IV officials of J&K Secretariat (Subordinate) Service, 31 Class-IV employees of different PSUs and HoDs, otherwise attached with the GAD and 33 Class -IV employees belonging to various HoDs/ offices/ Corporations.
Prominent officers,  among those repatriated, include Ravi Shankar Sharma (OSD to then Minister for Industries and Commerce), Jahangir Hashmi (Special Assistant to then Minister for  Revenue), Mohammad Usman Khan (Pvt Secretary to then Minister for Revenue),  Rakesh Kumar Sharma (Pvt Secy to then DyCM),  Anshumali Sharma (Addl Pvt Secy to then Minister for Industries and Commerce), Suraj Parkash Rukwal (OSD to  then Minister for Health and Medical Education), Ram Sevak (OSD to then Minister for Social Welfare, Forest, Ecology and Environment)  Bashir Ahmad Lone and Piyush Dhotra (OSD and Addl Pvt Secy, respectively,  to then Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control), Mohd Farooq Dar  and Vinay Kumar Koul (OSD and Pvt Secy, respectively, to then Minister for CAPD), Aadil Fareed ( OSD to then Minister for Science and Technology and Animal Husbandry) Haris Ahmad Handoo and Sajad Bashir Somberia (OSD and  Addl Pvt Secy, respectively,   to then Minister for Finance),  Ghulam Nabi Bhat ( Special Assistant to then Minister for Agriculture), Prince Noorul Hamid (Addl Pvt Secy to then Minister for PWD), Anil Sharma ( Special Assistant to then Minister for Information Technology, Technical Education and Youth Services and Sports),  Anil Salgotra (Special Assistant to then Minister for Education),  Mohd Latif and Ajay Bharti (Special Assistant  and Addl Pvt Secy, respectively,  to then Minister for Transport),  Prem Singh and Atul Dutt Sharma ( Special Assistant and Addl Pvt Secy, respectively, to then MoS PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control),  Mushtaq Ahmad Wani (Pvt Secy to then MoS Industries and Commerce, PDD and HUDD), Rohit Sharma (Spl  Assistant to then MoS   Information, Education and Culture), Shuaib Mohammad Naikoo (Addl Pvt Secy to then MoS Health, Social Welfare), Shakeel Hussain (Pvt Secy to then Advisor to former CM),  Shakti Pathak (OSD to then Dy CM), Afaq Ahmed (Addl Pvt Secy to then Minister for Horticulture, Haj and Auqaf), Rajeev Bhushan (Spl Assistant to then Minister for RDD), Aziz Ahmad Rather (Addl Pvt Secy to then Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs), Altaf Ahmad Zargar ( OSD to then Minister of PWD), Sarfaraz Ahmad (Addl Pvt Secy to then Minister for Information Technology, Technical Education and Youth Services and Sport), Syed Shah Nawaz ( Addl Pvt Secy to then Minister for Education), Sanjay Bhat (Addl Pvt Secy to then Minister for Cooperatives), Nisar Ahmad ( Spl Assistant to then  MoS Industries and Commerce), Dheeraj Jandial ( Spl Assistant to then MoS Information, Education and Culture) and   Sheikh Shavaiz Ahmad (Spl Assistant to then MoS Health, Social Welfare) and others.

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