Patna,(BiharTimes): Bihar is facing acute shortage of IAS officers even as the new government of grand alliance partners is trying to give a boost to the development works.
At present Bihar has 203 IAS officers against the sanctioned strength of 342. What is more, 42 of them are on central deputation and five on inter-state deputation in different states while 17 are to retire in the year 2016. Nine officers of 2014 batch are posted as probationers in different districts.
Besides, six chief secretary-rank officials, one principal secretary, two secretary and eight joint secretary-rank officials will be retiring in 2016.
They include Sudhir Kumar (1982 batch) on March 31. He had served as OSD of Lalu Prasad, when the latter was railway minister and is at present principal secretary of road construction department, which is headed by Tejaswi Prasad Yadav.
Board of Revenue chairman-cum-member Anand Vardhan Sinha (1978 batch is retiring on July 31; Union Parliamentary affairs secretary Afzal Amanullah (1979 batch on May 31); chief adviser of Bihar State Planning Board Amita Paul (1980 batch on November 30 while Agriculture production commissioner Vijoy Prakash (81 batch on September 30.
Revenue and land reforms department’s principal secretary Vyasji Mishra (1982 batch is retiring on September 30.
Departmental enquiry commissioner Rameshwar Singh (1983 batch), who is in the principal secretary-rank, will retire on March 31.
Apart from this some of those retiring are those promoted from Bihar Administrative Service.