Work suffers as several IAS officers take year-end leave

Neena Sharma

Tribune News Service

Dehradun, December 27

As the new year approaches, it is holiday time for several IAS officers. Most of them have already gone on leave while others are waiting to take leave in January next year. So much so, the months of December and January could be considered low in productivity for Uttarakhand, as around 13 IAS officers will be on leave on December 29, December 30 and December 31. Of the 13 IAS officers, a few will remain on leave till the middle of January. Leave for four began on December 26 while for two, it started on December 15 and for one, it commenced on December 12.

Haridwar District Magistrate D Senthyl Pendiyanhas been on leave from December 22. He will remain out of office till January 9, 2015. Dr Ahmed Iqbal, CDO, Almora, is on leave from December 26 to January 1. Principal Secretary, Food and Civil Supplies, Radha Raturi will be on leave from December 29 till January 1, 2015. Additional Secretary Planning Indudhar Badoi has been on leave from December 15 to December 29 for a period of 15 days.

Additional Secretary, Department of Social Welfare, Sushil Kumar has been on leave since December 15 and will be on leave till December 29. Additional Secretary Transport Brijesh Sant will be on leave from December 29 to January 16. SA Murgashan, DM Chamoli, is on leave from December 26. The leave is up to January 1, 2015. Additional Secretary, Department of Food and Civil Supplies, Ravi Nath Raman will be on leave from December 29 to January 9, 2015.

Additional Secretary, Department of Excise, Vinay Shankar Pandey, is on leave from December 26 to January 1, 2015. Additional Secretary, Department of Student Welfare, Atul Gupta, is on leave from December 17 to December 31. Vimmy Sachdev will be on leave from December 29 to January 1, 2015.

Principal Secretary S Ramaswamy was on leave from December 26 till today. Bhupal Singh Manral is on leave from December 12 to December 31.

That’s not all. There are other IAS officers such as Secretary, Department of PWD, Amit Negi who will go on leave early next year, from January 12 to January 21. Dr RB Shanmugan will be on leave from January 19 to February 7 and Dr R Rajesh Kumar, from January 12 to January 27, 2015. Barring Radha Raturi, who will be on child care leave, all will be on earned leave.