Principal Secretary Prateek Hajela To Return Back To Home Cadre Assam

GUWAHATI: Prateek Hajela, principal secretary (PS) and CEO of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Good Governance and Policy Analysis, is going back to his Assam-Meghalaya cadre. Hajela was fired from the Social Justice Department just yesterday.

Hajela is an Assam cadre IAS officer from the 1995 batch. He was sent to Madhya Pradesh in 2019 as a result of a Supreme Court ruling because his life was in danger due to the NRC controversy. 

Five FIRs were filed against Hajela in Assam as a result of the NRC dispute after he arrived in MP. Sedition-related accusations were involved in one of the FIRs. 

The Ayush Department responsibility has been handed over to principal secretary Faiz Ahmad Kidwai. Swatantra Singh has also been appointed CEO of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Good Governance and Policy Analysis. 

Moreover, the Jabalpur and Sagar divisional commissioners have been replaced by the government. Abhay Verma, commissioner of Lok Shikshan Sansthan, has been assigned as commissioner of Jabalpur. Virendra Singh Rawat, the labour commissioner, has been appointed the commissioner of Sagar. 

On the other hand, the secretary position at Mantralay has been given to the commissioner of Jabalpur. 

Anubha Shrivastava has been appointed as the Lok Shikshan Sansthan's commissioner. Mukesh Shukla, the commissioner of the Sagar division, will retire on March 31. The extra responsibility of labour commissioner has been granted to Indore commissioner Pawan Shrivastava.

For six years, until November 2019, Prateek Hajela served as the face for the Assam effort to update the 1951 National Register of Citizens (NRC). This Assam-Meghalaya cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from the 1995 class has been labelled an anti-national less than three years later. 

Hitesh Dev Sarma, filed a first information report (FIR) with the Criminal Investigation Department on May 19 in an effort to bring legal action against Mr. Hajela for willfully breaking the law by omitting required quality checks during the updating of the NRC and allowing declared foreigners, sceptic voters, and their descendants to enlist their names.

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