Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 3: The State Cabinet which met here today under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah approved various promotions in the administration.
The Cabinet approved promotion of 19 IAS officers to the Selection Grade of IAS (Rs 37,400 – 67000 + GP of Rs 8700) with effect from January 1, 2014.
They include Sanjeev Verma, Dr. Mandeep Kumar Bhandari, Mohammad Afzal Bhat, Mohammad Shafi Rather, Sudershan Sharma (Retd), Mehraj Ahmed Kakroo, Satish Nehru, Parvez Ahmed Malik, Anal Kumar Gupta, Raj Kumar Bhagat, Abdul Majid Mir, Nirmal Sharma, Shafat Noor Barlas, Abdul Latief Deva, Ramesh Kumar Koul, Khurshid Ahmed Shah, Mohammad Sharif Sood, Zaffar Ahmad Bhat and Abdul Maajid Ganai.
The Cabinet also approved promotion of 6 IFS officers to the Super Time Scale – I (Conservator of Forest) in pay band of Rs.37,400 – 67000 + GP of Rs 8900 from March 1, 2014.. They include Roop Avtar Kour, Preet Pal Singh, Naveen Kumar Shah, K. Ramesh, Javid Ahmad Indrabi and Zahoor Ahmad Jan.
The Cabinet approved promotion of Darshan Lal, Chief Accounts Officer, Directorate of Health Services Jammu and Sanjay Kumar, District Treasury Officer, Udhampur of the J&K Account Services to the Selection Grade of Rs 15600 – 39000 + GP Rs 7600 from April 17, 2014.
The Cabinet also gave approval to the promotion of Ishtiyaq Ahmad Hamal, Development Commissioner, Works (retired) from April 17, 2014 till the date of his retirement on superannuation on 30.04.2014 and Dr. Abdul Kabir Dar, Director, ISM, J&K prospectively, to a Common Pool of Posts for HoDs in the pay scale of Rs 37,400-67,000 +GP of Rs 10,000.
It also accorded sanction to the regularization of Reyaz Ahmad Banday as Director General Economics & Statistics J&K w.e.f. 01.12.2013 in the pay scale of Rs 37400-67000 with GP of Rs 10000.
It also accorded sanction to the regularization of Satvir Kour Sudan, Tariq Ahmad Khan and S. Bilal Ahmad as Directors (Planning) from 02.01.2014 in the regular Pay Scale of Rs.37,400 – 67000 + GP of Rs 8700.
The Cabinet also accorded sanction to the promotion of Ram Krishan Bhat, Senior Private Secretary of the Jammu & Kashmir Private Secretaries to Heads of Departments (Gazetted Service), as Principal Private Secretary, in the Pay scale of Rs 15,600-39,100 with GP of Rs 7600 with immediate effect.
The Government today ordered the transfers and postings of Chief Engineers and Incharge Chief Engineers of Hydraulic Wings of PHE, Irrigation & Flood Control (I&FC) Departments with immediate effect.
Mr. Naresh Kumar, Chief Engineer awaiting order of adjustment has been posted as Chief Engineer, Directorate of Designs, Inspections and Quality Control, Jammu vice Sushil Aima.
K.K. Gupta, Incharge Chief Engineer, PHE, Jammu has been transferred and posted as Incharge Chief Engineer RTIC, Jammu vice H.C. Jerath.
Mr Jerath, Incharge Chief Engineer, RTIC, Jammu has been transferred and posted as Incharge Chief Engineer, Irrigation and Flood Control, Jammu relieving Sushil Aima of the additional charge of the post. Aima Incharge Chief Engineer, Directorate of Designs, Inspection and Quality Control, Jammu has been transferred and posted as Incharge Chief Engineer PHE, Jammu vice K.K. Gupta.