Haryana chief secy Rastogi to get extension in service
CHANDIGARH: The Haryana
government has decided to seek extension in service for 1990 batch IAS officer and incum bent chief secretary Anurag Rastogi, thus allowing the offi-cer to continue to hold the charge of chief secretary from July 1.
A communication recom-mending extension in service will be sent to the Centre shortly. Rastogi, who was appointed as chief secretary in February this year, is due to retire on June 30.
The All-India Service (death cum retirement benefits) Rules, 1958, provide for six months of extension in service for chief secretary with the prior approval of the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) of the central government.
Sources said that the issue of Rastogi’s extension in service grant him extension in service.
Rastogi’s batchmate and Himachal Pradesh chief secre-tary Prabodh Saxena was also granted a six-month extension in service by the ACC of the cen tral government in March this year, two days before he was to superannuate.
Saxena was given extension in service by the central ment despite the fact that the Central Bureau of Investigation had named him an accused in the INX Media case in a charge sheet filed before a special court in 2019 after obtaining sanction for prosecution under Section 19 of the Prevention of Corrup-tion Act.
Satinder Duggal
