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Cabinet secy gets another extension
Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar has been granted an unprecedented extension of one more year,a move that will give him the longest tenure of four years as the senior-most bureaucrat in the country....
Written by Express News Service
New Delhi | May 29, 2010 03:30 AM IST
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Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar has been granted an unprecedented extension of one more year,a move that will give him the longest tenure of four years as the senior-most bureaucrat in the country.
The extension was given over the weekend by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,but had to be preceded by changes in the service rules an amendment in Fundamental Rule 56 or FR 56 to be precise that could enable the 1970 batch officer to get the extension. A simple extension was not possible as Chandrasekhars term is tenure-based and he would otherwise have retired on June 13.
The decision,however,not only pushes several hopefuls from the 1972 and 1973 batch out of the race,but paves the way for the ascension of 1974 batch officer Pulok Chatterjee,one of the closest aides of Congress president Sonia Gandhi,to the top post next year before his retirement in August 2011.
Pulok is currently posted as executive director of World Bank,an assignment that he took on in October 2008,a few months before the Lok Sabha elections in May 2009. The World Bank posting is of three years but he could be brought back just in time as is expected now when Chandrasekhars one-year extension ends in June 2011. Chatterjee,who otherwise would retire in August,would then automatically get a two-year term as Cabinet Secretary.
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