Pratibha Dotasara, a 2019 batch RAS officer, who is daughter-in-law of Congress state chief Govind Singh Dotasara has been sent back to her home district Churu as assistant director, public services, administrative reforms. Earlier on February 27, 2024, she was transferred to Dotasara's home district as assistant collector, Sikar. Now again she has been sent to Churu. In February this year, she was transferred to Churu from Nawalgarh where she had served as assistant collector.
Pratibha Dotasara, who is among 16 RAS officers transferred today, has however been privileged enough to have spent over four years of her service in Shekhawati region within a radius of 70 kms. Even the change of government could not change her ‘fortune'.
Gaurav Bajad, who is president of RAS Association and also president of All India Federation of State Civil Services, has been transferred to Banswara, more than 500 kms from Jaipur. He will be working as additional divisional commissioner in the office of divisional commissioner Niraj K Pawan. Bajad was joint secretary of former chief minister Ashok Gehlot and was later posted to Hari Dev Joshi University of Journalism and Mass Communication last month. In less than a month's time, he has been again transferred.
Another senior RAS officer Harphool Singh Yadav has been transferred twice in less than a month. On February 22, he was transferred from JDA to director, language and library department and now again he has been transferred to additional divisional commissioner Pali. In JDA Harphool Singh Yadav was working as additional commissioner and also had charge of secretary when IAS Nalini Kathotia was put on APO after chief secretary Sudhansh Pant showed his displeasure over functioning of JDA.
Apart from that, RAS officers including Ram Ratan Sonkaria, Mahaveer Singh, Nisha Saharan, Gordhan Lal Sharma, Radheshyam Delu, Ranjeet Singh, Raveendra Singh, Rohit Chauhan, Om Prakash Bishnoi and Banshidhar Yogi have also been transferred.
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