Bihar calling! Tum yahan, main wahan...

One of the most suitably tagged ‘career bureaucrat’, Sanjay Kumar, the 1990-batch Bihar cadre IAS, superannuated last month from a very significant assignment as School Education Secretary in the Government of India. Given his stupendous service record in Bihar as well as Centre, his post-retirement role was almost certain, perhaps as CEO of NITI Aayog or back to Bihar as Chief Secretary under the changed regime led by Samrat Chaudhary. Misfortune had it that at fag end of his career Sanjay Kumar faced the blot of CBSE results evaluation controversy and the NEET paper leaks. But recent grapevine emerging from the Seva Teerth is that he may be assigned the job of Principal Secretary or Advisor to the incumbent Bihar CM. The role held currently by retired 1984 IAS officer Deepak Kumar, who had a long stint with former CM Nitish Kumar, may be tasked to join his former boss, who is now a Rajya Sabha MP and is being anticipated for a larger responsibility either in the NDA Government or in the coalition.