The Centre has directed Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Forest Service (IFS) officers to inform if their total transactions in stock, share or other investments exceed their six months' basic pay in a calendar year.
The security of other policemen deployed in solving the May 29 murder case has also been increased
175 IAS officers of the 2020 batch posted as Assistant Secretaries in various ministries called on the Vice President, Jagdeep Dhankhar.
The LDA has also lodged an FIR at the Hazratganj police station against Mukesh Jasnani of M/S Bansal Construction and his partners for carrying out the commercial activity of running a hotel on a residential plot.
While this is not the first incident that shook the nation, earlier there have been a number of IAS, and IES officers who laid down their lives falling prey to the mafia.
Prakash Rajpurohit will be new collector in Jaipur, Om Prakash Bunkar in Kota, Dr Jitendra Soni in Alwar, Anil Agarwal in Dholpur, Dr Indrajeet Yadav in Dungarpur, Dr Tina Dabi in Jaisalmer, and Ravindra Goswami in Bundi.
Since 2019, the state government has either dismissed or given forced retirement to 151 tainted officers under its “zero-tolerance against corruption” policy. Two IAS and IFS officers were recently dismissed from service.
A better and far easier solution to fill up vacant posts at Joint Secretary level exists. Under the Central Staffing Scheme, every year applications are invited from officers of AIS, officers of State Government and members of the Central Services, to fill up Deputy Secretary and above posts in the Central Government. Posts up to Director level are filled-up mostly by officers of Central Services while the IAS predominates in JS and above level posts. So, the shortage of officers at JS level can be addressed by removing the bias against non-IAS officers
According to the order by Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal, seven police officers, between the ranks of joint commissioner of police (Joint CPs) and deputy commissioner of police (DCP), were shifted to different departments.
Indian Air Force (IAF) chief Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh, Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane, and Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat were present at the event.
