In a bureaucratic reshuffle, Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena on Friday transferred 12 IAS officers with immediate effect, hours after a CBI raid at Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s residence in connection with the Delhi Excise Policy 21-22.
According to a transfer posting order issued by the Services Department of the Delhi Government, Udit Prakash Rai, a 2007-batch IAS officer, Special Secretary with the Health and Family Welfare Department has been transferred as Special Secretary, Administrative Reform. Saxena had recommended the Ministry of Home Affairs to take action against Rai for allegedly accepting `50 lakh bribe to grant “undue favours” to an executive engineer in two corruption cases. Currently, Sisodia handles the Health portfolio in the Delhi Government.
Vijendra Singh Rawat, a 2007-batch IAS officer, has replaced Rai. He will also hold the additional charge of Director (planning). According to the order, a 1990-batch officer, Jitendra Narain, has been made the Chairman and Managing Director of the Delhi Finance Corporation (DFC) while southwest Delhi District Magistrate Hemant Kumar has been given the additional charge as DFC’s Executive Director. Vivek Pandey has been appointed as Secretary (IT) and given the additional charge of Managing Director of Geospatial Delhi Limited and Director of Union Territory Civil Services. Until now, he was posted as Secretary, Administrative Reforms.