Senior IAS officer of 1980 batch, Shailesh Krishna will be the new president of UP IAS Association. He succeeds Anil Kumar Gupta, Chairman Board of Revenue, who attained the age of super annuation on Friday.
A meeting of UP IAS Association was held in lucknow on Friday and Krishna was unanimously elected as Chairman of the Association. He has been elected as per traditions of the body of civil servants to chose their senior most colleague as the head of the association.
Secretary of the Association Ashish Kumar Goel said that Shailesh Krishna has given his consent to head the Association.
The meeting of the association decided to represent to the state government for the sanction of the pay scale of the chief secretary to all the officers of the 1985 and 1986 batch. The meeting also decided to represent to the state government for designating all officers as additional chief secretary who are drawing the pay scale of the chief secretary.
The association demanded from the state government that the orders of promotion for all the officers due for promotion next year be issued to issue in November next as the model code of conduct for the next assembly elections is likely to come into force from January 1 next year.
The association also decided to represent to the state government for the sanction of the seventh pay commission for the officers of the all India services. Association said as per the established practice the new pay commission recommendation is implemented simultaneous for the officers of the Central government and all India services.
The facility of accommodation at state government’s guest house `UP Sadan’ in Delhi is presently available only to the retired chief secretary. The meeting decided to represent to the state government to grant this facility also to the officers retiring from the post of additional chief secretary.
The meeting authorised the secretary of the association to select five names after consulting the members for the daylong conference organised by the Central IAS association in Delhi on October 22.