Chhattisgarh government has given promotion to IAS couple of 1995 batch – Maninder Kaur Dwivedi and her husband Gaurav Dwivedi.
The duo got proforma promotion on the post of Additional Chief Secretary (ACS). The two officers have been given this promotion after completing 30 years of service, and the decision was taken at the Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) meeting held on March 10.
Maninder Kaur Dwivedi is currently working as additional secretary in union agriculture ministry and also as chairperson and managing director in National Seeds Corporation (NSC) while Gaurav Dwivedi is serving as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Prasar Bharati. Both the officers are currently posted at the Centre, so they were given the benefit of proforma promotion.
The state government issued an official order on this promotion after the meeting of the departmental promotion committee on March 10.
According to the information, the central government had approved an additional post of Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), under which the state government promoted these two officers. As a result, there are now a total of 10 officers of the Chief Secretary grade in the Chhattisgarh cadre.
Prominent names among these officers are Amitabh Jain, Renu Pilla, Amit Agarwal, Manoj Pinguwa, Subrata Sahu, Nidhi Chibber, Vikas Sheel, and Richa Sharma. After these new promotions, the number of vacancies at the principal secretary level has been reduced, so that other lower-ranking officers may have to wait for promotions until the end of this year.
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