Mubashir Bukhari
Srinagar (NVI): Jammu and Kashmir administration today appointed Pandurang Kondbarao Pole as new Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir.
Pole will replace Baseer Ahmad Khan who was appointed as 4th advisor to lieutenant governor Girish Chandra Murmu on Sunday.
A 2001-batch IAS officer, Pandurang Kondbarao Pole was presently posted as Secretary to the Government, Department of Food, Civil, Supplies and Consumer Affairs.
According to Government Order No.385-JK(GAD) of 2020, “Pandurang Kondbarao Pole, IAS(JK 2004), Secretary to the Government, Department of Food, Civil, Supplies and Consumer Affairs, is transferred and posted as Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir,” the official orders read.
Besides him, the government has ordered the transfer of five other top officers.
According to an order issued here, Dr Asgar Hassan Samoon, IAS, Principal Secretary to the Government, Animal and Sheep Husbandry Department, holding additional charge of Administrative Secretary, Transport Department, has been transferred and posted as Principal Secretary to the Government, School Education Department.
Navin Kumar Choudhary, IAS (JK:1994), Principal Secretary to the Government, Education Department, holding additional charge of Administrative Secretary, Technical Education Department, has been transferred and posted as Principal Secretary to the Government, Animal and Sheep Husbandry Department. He has also been asked to hold the additional charge of Administrative Secretary, Agriculture and Horticulture Departments, upon the retirement on superannuation of Manzoor Ahmad Lone, IAS on 31.03.2020. “He shall also continue to hold the charge of Administrative Secretary, Technical Education Department, in addition to his own till further orders,” reads the order.
Shailendra Kumar, IAS(JK:1995), Chief Electoral Officer, J&K and Principal Secretary to the Government, Election Department, has been transferred and posted as Principal Secretary to the Government, Social Welfare Department. The officer has been also asked to be Officer on Special Duty in the Public Works (R&B) Department.
“He shall hold the additional charge of Administrative Secretary, Public Works (R&B) Department, upon the retirement on superannuation of Mr. Khurshid Ahmad Shah, IAS on 30.4.2020.”
Simrandeep Singh, IAS(JK:2008), Administrative Secretary, Department of Disaster Management, Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction, has been asked to hold the charge of Administrative Secretary, Department of Food, Civil, Supplies and Consumer Affairs, in addition to his own duties, till further orders.
Syed Abid Rasheed Shah, IAS(JK:2012), Additional Secretary to the Government, Finance Department, holding additional charge of CEO, Mission Youth, has been asked to also hold the additional charge of Chief Executive Oficer, J&K Economic Reconstruction Agency, till further orders, relieving Principal Secretary to the Government, Planning, Development and Monitoring Department of the additional charge of the post.
Babila Rakwal, KAS, Director, Handlooms, J&K, has been transferred and posted as Vice-Chairman, Jammu Development Authority, relieving Ms. Avny Lavasa, IAS, Commissioner, lammu Municipal Corporation of the additional charge of the post. “She shall also hold the charge of Additional Chief Executive Officer, Metropolitan Region Development Authority, Jammu, in addition to her own duties, till further orders,” reads the order. Mussarat-ul-Islam, Director, Handicrafts, J&K, has been asked to hold the charge of the post of Director, Handlooms, J&K, in addition to his own duties, till further orders.
