Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 19: Cabinet today accorded sanction to the promotion of 16 IAS and around 171 KAS officers besides appointment by promotion of four officers of Excise and Taxation (Gazetted) Service to the Time Scale of Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service.
Ten IAS officers of 2002 batch namely Saurabh Bhagat, Mohammad Yousuf Dar, Hemant Kumar Sharma, Hilal Ahmed Parray, Kifayat Hussain Rizvi, Dilshad Khan, Basharat Saleem, Tsering Angchok, Shafiq Ahmed Raina and Sajad Ahmad Khan have been promoted to the Selection Grade of IAS with effect from January 1, 2015.
Similarly, the Cabinet accorded sanction to the promotion of three IAS officers of 2010 batch namely Prasanna Ramaswamy G, Niraj Kumar and Kumar Rajeev Ranjan to the Senior Time Scale of IAS with effect from January 1, 2014.
It also accorded sanction to the promotion of three IAS officers of 2011 batch namely Deepti Uppal, Bhupinder Kumar and Ramesh Kumar to the Senior Time Scale of IAS with effect from January 1, 2015.
In another decision, the Cabinet ordered the release of Selection Grade of KAS in favour of 171 officers of the Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Services (KAS), which were hanging fire due to litigations and other issues since long.
These officers are Mushtaq Ahmad Shah, Javed Ahmad Shah, Asif Hameed Khan, Soujanya Kumar Sharma, Itrat Hussain Rafiqui, Mir Altaf Ahmad, Mohammad Yasin Sheikh, Hashmat Ali Khan, Khurshid Ahmad Shah, Amit Sharma, GM Brakboo, Nazim Zai Khan, Sheikh Mukhtar Hussain, Bashir Ahmad Dar, Sunita Anand, Shakeel-ul-Rehman, Pradeep Kumar, MM Rehman Ghasi, Avtar Singh Chib, Bilal Ahmad Bhat, Rakesh Gupta, Nisar Hussain Wani, Rohit Khajuria, Jagdev Singh Manhas, Mukhtar-ul-Aziz, Bashir Ahmad Khan, Ram Ditta Charak, Bikram Singh Jamwal, Javed Iqbal Balwan, Ghulam Nabi Balwan, Tsering Marup, Riyaz Ahmad Choudhary, Tasaduq Jeelani, Gazanfer Ali, Hassan Khan, Veer Ji Hangloo, Abdul Aziz Bhat, Shakeel Ahmad Teng, Abdul Rashid War, Rahul Sharma, Narinder Singh Bali, Aijaz Ahmad Bhat, Hashmat Ali Yatoo, Choudhary Rashid Azam Inqalabi, Majid Khalil Ahmad Drabu, Mohammad Akbar Wani, Mufti-M-Fareed-ud-din, Rifat Arif, Sheikh Arshad Ayub, Nasir Ahmad Naqash, Rajesh Sharma, Farooq Ahmad Shah, Babila Rakwal, Riyaz Ahmad, Shabnam Shah Kamili, Dr Ghulam Nabi Itoo, Ravinder Kumar Bhat, Rachna Sharma, Leena Padha, Kusum Badyal, Rajinder Singh Tara, Vivek Sharma, Mohammad Hussain Mir, Tariq Hussain Ganai, Munir-ul-Islam, Showkat Aijaz Bhat, Gulzar Ahmad Dar, Arvind Kotwal, Mohammad Harun Malik, Nisar Ahmad Wani, Ali Afsar Khan, Ghulam Rasool Mir, Jatinder Singh, Dr Ravi Shanker Sharma, Sajjad Hussain Ganai, Anoo Malhotra, Shamim Ahmad, Nitu Gupta, Prediman Krishan Bhat, Anuradha Rani, Pankaj Magotra, Tariq Ahmad Zargar, Manohar Lal Raina, Ghulam Mohd Dar, Manmohan Singh, Bhawani Rakwal, Smita Sethi, Anuradha Gupta, Ashok Kumar Pandita, Reyaz Ahmad Wani, Manzoor Ahmad Bhat, Ravinder Nath Sadhu, Farooq Ahmad Rather, Manzoor Ahmad Qadri, Raman Kumar Kesar, Asgar Hussain, Tanveer Iqbal, Bashir Ahmad Khan, Khalid Jahangir, Manisha Sareen, Mohammad Ishaq Shah, Ajay Kumar, Deepika Kumari Sharma, Ghulam Rasool Kumar, Mahmood Ahmed Shah, Muzaffar Ahmad Peer, Ajaz Abdullah Saraf, Pawan Singh Rathore, Mohd Rafi, Mehraj-ud-Din Rather, Kishore Singh Chib, Shahbaz Ahmad Mirza, Rubeena Kounser, Mussarat Islam Soharwardy, Mohinder Singh, Dr Firdous Ahmad Giri, Mohammad Yousuf Mir, Mohammad Younis Malik, Shubra Sharma, Inderjeet, Mathora Masoom, Shiv Kumar Gupta, Qazi Sarwar, Vikas Sharma, Indu Kanwal Chib, Rajesh Kumar Shavan, Mohammad Shafiq Chak, Mushtaq Ahmad, Tej Krishan Bhat, Manzoor Ahmad Sofi, Angrez Singh Rana, Abdul Hafiz Shah, Abdul Salam Mir, Subhash Chander Chhibber, Nazir Ahmad Khawaja, Shafqat Iqbal, Om Prakash, Imam Din, Mohammad Qasim Wani, Ramesh Chander, Reyaz Ahmad Sofi, Bashir Ahmad Wani, Showkat Hussain Kazmi, Ram Savak, Raj Kumar Katoch, Musheer Ahmad, Riffat Kohli, Kalyan Singh, Nawab Din, Mohd Nazir Sheikh, Ajesh Kumar, Mohammad Saleem, Choudhary Mohammad Rashid, Mohammad Mumtaz Ali, Abdul Hamid, Dr Bharat Bhushan, Nirupa Rai, Ashok Kumar, Rakesh Kumar Sarangal, Mohammad Shahid Saleem Dar, Babu Ram, Pritam Lai Atri, Naseem Javid Choudhary, Harvinder Kour, Purnima Mittal, Arun Kumar Manhas, YP Suman, Anjana Tickoo, PK Koul, Nazir Ahmad Mir and Mohammad Ashraf Bhat.
The Cabinet also accorded sanction to the appointment by promotion of Shyam Sunder Gupta, Pawan Kumar, Bharat Singh and Mansoor Aslam Choudhary, officers of J&K Excise and Taxation (Gazetted) Service, to the Time Scale of Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service (KAS) with effect from December 6, 2010.
It also approved release of grade of Time Scale of KAS with effect from December 6, 2010 in favour of Naresh Kumar Choudhary and Abdul Qayoom Ahanger, retired officers of the J&K Excise and Taxation (Gazetted) Service.
Meanwhile, Government accorded sanction to the release of grade of Time Scale of KAS in favour of Ashok Kumar Kohli with effect from January 1, 2013 to March 31, 2013 on notional basis without payment of arrears for the period with effect from January 1, 2013 to March 18, 2013.