Guv’s Advisers allocated depts

Arteev Sharma

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Tribune News Service

Jammu, February 4

Retired IAS officers Parvez Dewan and Khurshid Ahmad Ganai, who have been appointed as advisers by Jammu and Kashmir Governor NN Vohra, have had a distinguished career.

Parvez Dewan, a 1977-batch IAS officer of the J&K cadre, was granted voluntary premature retirement on October 20, 2014, because he wanted to concentrate on his career as a writer. Dewan, who is also a lyricist, had served as the Divisional Commissioner of Kashmir from 2001 to 2003. He had also served as the Union Tourism Secretary in 2012.

Ganai, a 1982-batch IAS officer, was also granted premature retirement last year. He had served as Financial Commissioner, Industries and Commerce Department; Secretary, General Administration Department (GAD), J&K, from 2005 to 2008; and Chairman, Bureau of Public Enterprises.

The notification said that Parvez Dewan would be in charge of the departments of School Education, Higher Education, Technical Education, Youth Services and Sports, Health and Medical Education, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution, Transport, Public Works (B&R), Information Technology, Floriculture, Garden and Parks, Tourism and Culture.

Khurshid Ahmed Ganai would be in charge of the departments of Agriculture Production, Horticulture, Animal/Sheep Husbandry, Co-operative, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Forest, Environment and Ecology, Labour and Employment, PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control, Social Welfare and Tribal Affairs.

“The appointment of advisers is aimed at striking a balance between field work and file work (administrative functioning), besides ensuring a good and responsive government in the state,” sources said, adding that the next move is likely to be postings of officers, who have been awaiting their adjustment.

The Governor has also directed that Chief Secretary BR Sharma would deal with matters relating to the departments of General Administration, Administrative Reforms, Inspections and Training, Stationery and Printing, Elections, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Home, Power Development, Science and Technology, and Industries and Commerce.

The matters relating to the departments of Planning and Development, Ladakh Affairs, Finance, Housing and Urban Development, Civil Aviation, Estates, Hospitality and Protocol, Information, Revenue, and Relief and Rehabilitation would be submitted to BB Vyas, Financial Commissioner.

The Governor has also approved the constitution of the State Administrative Council, with the Governor as its chairman and advisers as members, to dispose of cases mentioned in the Second Schedule of the J&K Government Business Rules, or such other matters as the Governor may direct to be placed before it.

The Chief Secretary would function as the Secretary of the State Administrative Council.