MP: Bureaucrats Going On Leave After Election Results
- Indian Masterminds Bureau
- Published on 14 Dec 2023, 4:19 pm IST
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This came to notice when Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Anupam Rajan held video conferencing (VC) on Friday and some of the collectors were missing
A new Chief Minister has been elected by the winning party’s MLAs in Madhya Pradesh, after Assembly Election 2023. But since the election results came out on December 3, many bureaucrats have been planning to go on leave, and some have already gone.
Collectors of many districts of Madhya Pradesh are on leave to overcome election fatigue. Some are going on short-term leave. This came to public notice, when Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Anupam Rajan held video conferencing (VC) on Friday, 8 December.
On the other hand, amidst the preparations for the formation of the new government and administrative gathering, many bureaucrats are preparing to go on tours within the country and abroad as well. In such a situation, the responsibilities assigned to these officers by the state government will remain in the hands of the in-charges all throughout the leave period.Related Stories
In the video conference, information about suggestions and complaints was sought from the collectors of the districts. In place of those collectors who had already proceeded on leave, Additional Collectors, CEOs of District Panchayat and Municipal Corporation Commissioners presented their views as representatives of the collectors.
The collectors, whose names have appeared among the officers who went on leave after continuous election work for about 3 months, are Rewa’s IAS Pratibha Pal, Satna’s IAS Anurag Verma, Sagar’s IAS Deepak Arya, Shahdol’s IAS Vandana Sharma and Jabalpur’s IAS Kumar Saurabh.
Apart from them, others bureaucrats who are preparing to go on tours are:
Bharat Yadav, OSD, Assistant Commissioner Urban Development will be abroad from December 23 to January 7.
Aruna Gupta, Secretary, Lokayukta, will be on foreign tour from January 22 to February 2.
Praveen Singh, Sehore Collector, will be abroad from January 6 to January 21.
Malika Nigam Nagar, Deputy Secretary Health, will be abroad from December 23 to January 5.
Meenakshi Singh, Deputy Secretary, ST Welfare and Tribal Affairs Department, will be on a foreign tour from December 23 to January 26.
Manish Shankar Sharma, ADG Police Manual, will be in Ecuador, South Africa from 11 December to 10 March.
Yogesh Chaudhary, DG Lokayukta, will be on leave from 16 to 31 December.
Rahul Singh Lodha, SP Ratlam, is going on a personal visit to New Zealand from January 6 to January 21.
Vaishnav Sharma, AIG PHQ, is on leave to Rameshwaram till 17 December.
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