Chandigarh, December 9
Anil Kumar, a Haryana cadre IAS officer, took over the charge of UT Home Secretary (HS) here today. He conceded that the city had a lot of scope for improvement and he would take stock of the existing ground conditions, besides the required changes.
Anil Kumar, a Haryana cadre IAS officer, took over the charge of UT Home Secretary (HS) here today. He conceded that the city had a lot of scope for improvement and he would take stock of the existing ground conditions, besides the required changes.
A formal order regarding the allotment of departments to the new Home Secretary are still awaited. He said since the police department was under him, his priority would be working out a mechanism to reduce the response time of the police control room (PCR) vehicles.
Following the appointment of Satya Gopal as the acting Home Secretary, a number of important offices of the Home Secretary, including health and tourism, had been passed to other officers. A majority of these are expected to be restored.
The tenure of the preceding Home Secretary, Ram Niwas, had witnessed several controversies, including the teachers’ recruitment scam, examination for CTU conductors, selection of firemen and selection of nurses and doctors. The scams included the selection of teachers in 2009; selection of firemen in 2010; selection of nurses and doctors and recruitment to CITCO; selection of conductors in CTU in 2011; fire recruitment scam in 2010; and PEC admission scam in 2010 (all during the tenure of Ram Niwas) and the UT police recruitment scam in 2007.
The new Home Secretary has a lot of work ahead of him. He will have to put in a special effort to restore public faith in the coveted office. At least five back-to-back scams in a couple of years in the city not only brought bad repute to the UT Administration, but also shook the trust of the common man in the Administration.
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