Jun 02 2017 : The Times of India (Chennai)

Dead officer in UP promoted, transferred

Pervez IqbalSiddiqui

Lucknow:





The Uttar Pradesh government recently issued a promotion and transfer letter to a provincial civil services (PCS) officer after his death.The goof up came to light when Anil Kumar Singh, joint secretary in the appointments department, issued a letter on May 28 to district magistrate Varanasi directing him to relieve Girish Kumar, who was posted as additional sub divisional magistrate under him. The letter said Girish Kumar had been promoted and posted as the city magistrate of Bulandshahr.
“Once we received the letter we realised there was some communication gap due to which the appointments department was not aware of Girish's death,“ said ADM finance (Varanasi) Ishwar Chand. He added that Girish passed away on November 29, 2016, after a prolonged illness. “We have once again written to the state government giving details of the case so that the records in Lucknow could be rectified accordingly,“ Chand told TOI.
After Girish's death, his son Rajul Sharma was given a government job and is presently a clerk in the record room of the collectorate. Rahul was unaware about the goof up. He said the government has already cleared most of the service dues of his father. “There must have been some lack of communication that led to this,“ he said.