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Haryana IAS officer shunted out for taking on Hooda govt

by IBNS 05 Aug 2014, 09:01 pm

Chandigarh, Aug 6 (IBNS): The Haryana government on Tuesday shunted out IAS (Indian Administrative Service) officer Pradeep Kasni who had recently objected to the appointment of two commissioners made by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

Kasni was the secretary of the Administrative Reforms Department (ARD). He was among seven IAS officers who were issued transfer orders on Tuesday. 

Kasni has now been posted as the administrator of the Command Area Development Agency (CADA), considered a relatively unimportant department in state government circuit.

He will also look after the work of Project Director, Haryana Aids Control Society, Panchkula, an official media release said.

The 1997 batch IAS officer said it was wrong to cut short his two-year posting.

“Getting transferred within six months or a year from the viewpoint of public interest is wrong. You are not able to understand work in new department...Before one can get a hang of things, the person is transferred without any substantive reason,” Kasni told media persons on Wednesday.

Last month, Kasni had refused to clear the appointment letters for five senior officers appointed by the CM. Later, the officers were administered their oaths by Hooda himself, a role mainly reserved for the governor, on a day the state’s new Constitutional head Kaptan Singh Solanki took charge.

The Haryana CM had claimed he had the go-ahead of the outgoing governor to perform the role.

Kasni had said the people chosen by the CM to serve in the Right to Information and Right to Service Commissions did not meet the eligibility criteria required for their posts.