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In a significant administrative reshuffle, the state authorities has transferred Darjeeling District Magistrate (DM) Ponnambalam S to the land and land reforms division, the place he would be the joint secretary.
Paschim Banga Agri Marketing Corporation Managing Director and Public Health Engineering division Project Director Shashank Sethi has succeeded him within the northern district.
The notification asserting the reshuffle was issued hours after Ponnabalam met Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday, who’s on a month-long go to to the Hills at current. Dhankhar has been important of the Mamata Banerjee authorities, and has clashed repeatedly with the state administration over the law-and-order state of affairs within the state.
Though the federal government claimed that it was a routine switch, Darjeeling MP Raju Bista of the BJP criticised the transfer.
“Testifying to the utter mismanagement and arbitrariness of the way the TMC government has run administration in the state, Darjeeling became the only district in India that has earned the unenviable distinction of seeing five District Magistrates move in and out in a matter of less than one-and-a-half years.”
He went on so as to add, “The game of musical chairs produced by TMC and directed by Hon’ble WB CM Mamata Banerrjee ji started with Joyoshi Dasgupta being moved out on 29 Jun 2019, to be replaced by Sanjay Bansal. Bansal was in the chair for merely two days before being replaced by Deepa Priya P. After a short tenure of just 11 months, she too was moved out in April 2020. She was replaced by Ponnambalam S, who was posted out after a mere six months in the chair, and he has now been replaced by Shashank Sethi.”
Bista mentioned it was a well-accepted concept that bureaucrats should have an assured tenure of three years, besides within the rarest of instances, to render to most people the providers the structure ensures them.
“An officer must be assured of reasonable tenures to be able to do justice to the post he occupies. Every officer needs time to learn the sphere and scope of his post, before being able to discharge their duties in a befitting manner and serve the people as they are sworn to. Short tenures, ranging from a few days to a few months will damage the quality of administration beyond repair,” the MP added.
Apart from Ponnambalam S, 11 IAS officers and 21 IPS officers have been transferred. The authorities claimed the executive rejig was affected for these holding a put up for practically for greater than three years, in accordance with Election Commission (EC) norms.
Former Health Secretary Vivek Kumar was moved to the Department of Environment and given extra cost of the West Bengal Valuation Board. Purba Bardhaman DM Vijay Bharti was put answerable for the Birbhum district administration, whereas his predecessor Moumita Godara Basu was positioned answerable for Jalpaiguri district. Abhishek Kumar Tiwary, who was the Jalpaiguri Justice of the Peace, was named the joint secretary of the state larger training division. Vibhu Goel was moved from Nadia to Purba Medinipur. He succeeded Partha Ghosh, who moved the opposite manner and took over the Nadia administration.
— With PTI inputs
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