The Haryana Government on Wednesday appointed 1988-batch IAS officer TVSN Prasad as additional chief secretary (ACS), home, following the retirement of Rajeev Arora.
A total of 18 IAS officers were shuffled. ACS, excise and taxation, Anurag Rastogi was given the additional charge of finance and planning. Principal secretary, urban local bodies, Arun Gupta was given the additional charge of town and country planning, a post that fell vacant following the retirement of Devender Singh.
ACS, public health, Apoorva Kumar Singh was given the additional charge of irrigation. G Anupama was given the additional charge of health. Ankur Gupta was posted as ACS, PWD, while Anand Mohan Sharan was posted as ACS, industries and commerce. Vineet Garg was transferred as ACS, forests and environment, Anil Malik as ACS, development and panchayat, and Vijayendra Kumar as principal secretary, higher and technical education.
Principal Secretary, art and cultural affairs, D Suresh was given the additional charge of monitoring and coordination and administrative reforms. Gurugram divisional commissioner Rajeev Ranjan was transferred as commissioner and secretary, social justice, welfare of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes, skill development and industrial training.
The commissioner and secretary, animal husbandry and dairying, Pankaj Agarwal was posted as commissioner and secretary, food, civil supplies and consumer affairs. Director general, social justice, Pankaj Yadav was posted as commissioner and secretary, animal husbandry and dairying.
Punjab extends date of moong procurement on MSP till Aug 10
PNS / Chandigarh
A day after the farmer unions called off their protest against the Punjab Government after their “most of the demands” were accepted, the Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday provided big relief to the state’s moong cultivators by extending the date of procurement of summer moong crop on Minimum Support Price (MSP) by August 10.
“Earlier, the procurement of moong crop on MSP in the State was to end on July 31. However, to facilitate the farmers for selling their crop, the State Government has decided to extend this procurement season by August 10,” said Mann.
He said that those farmers, who have not yet sold their crop, can sell it now in the mandis by this date. He added that the Managing Director (MD) of Markfed, the state’s nodal agency for the procurement, has been given necessary directions in this regard.
The Chief Minister said that the State Government has also decided to bear the gap, up to Rs 1000 per quintal, for moong crop sold below MSP to the farmers due to damage in grain. “This incentive will be given to all moong cultivators, including those who have already sold their crop to private players,” said Mann, adding that he has already directed the officers to ensure that the process of payment of this gap funding to the concerned farmers is ensured at the earliest.
The Chief Minister said that so far, the State Government has purchased 4807 metric ton (MT) of summer moong in the state.