NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, DECEMBER 7
Seniormost IAS officer and additional chief secretary, finance, Arvind Agrawal, a 1984-batch officer, has been transferred and appointed chairman and managing director of Gujarat State Fertilisers and Chemical Limited (GSFC).
A notification issued by the general administration department on Friday said Agrawal will continue as GSFC CMD for one year from the date of assuming charge, or until further orders.
The state government, meanwhile, did not name his successor in the finance department, leading to widespread speculation about this key government department.
Agrawal is scheduled to retire in April 2020, and has less than six months of service left.
There have been instances in the past, where officers have superseded others in becoming chief secretary. In these cases as well, the officers superseded, were transferred to positions outside the secretariat, mainly to head companies owned by the state government.
4 IAS officers get promotion as ACS
Four senior IAS officers of the 1988 and 1989 batches were promoted to the rank of additional chief secretary (ACS) from the principal secretary rank. This following vacancies that were created due to retirement of other ACS rank officers. Those who have been promoted to ACS rank include 1988 batch officers Anita Karwal, who is presently chairperson, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi, Sanjay Nandan, MD, Gujarat Warehousing Corporation and Anuradha Mall, CEO, Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority (GSDMA). Pankaj Joshi, principal secretary, energy & petrochemicals, who is of the 1989 batch, has also been promoted to the ACS rank.
