Officer pays for defying Chautala

Financial Commissioner, Food and Supplies, H. C. Disodia has been given the additional charge of the Tourism Department, while Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Excise and Taxation, L S M Salins will hold the additional charge of Town and Country Planning Department. The government has also ordered that the special secretaries in finance department will exercise the powers of Secretary, Finance.

Sources said the order has come in the wake of Chatterjee’s refusal to buckle under the government’s pressure to clear certain controversial licences to colonisers besides granting CLUs to some parties in Gurgaon and Faridabad. The government wanted to allegedly push through at least two dozen CLUs and 30 licences to its favourites. But Chatterjee had put his foot down.