Family time for top IAS trio in city
Deepkamal Kaur
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, June 24
The top IAS trio in Jalandhar has started having a gala family time. While wife of ADC (G) Girish Dayalan, ACP North Amneet Kondal, was already posted in Jalandhar, Deputy Commissioner Kamal Kishor Yadav’s wife Geetanjali Sagar and ADC (D) Kumar Amit’s better half Alka Meena have recently joined as Assistant Income Tax Commissioner and ADCP (Headquarters and Security), respectively. Kondal and Meena are IPS officers as Geetanjali Sagar is an IRS officer.
The three couples admit that they consider themselves fortunate enough as being together has not just brought comfort and happiness in their lives but has also increased their work efficiency. Deputy Commissioner Yadav, whose wife had earlier been completing her training in Ludhiana after clearing IRS in 2013, tells, “I had no problem in raising my daughters Tanishqa (8) and Khwahish (4) alone because my parents are putting up with me and giving them all the care. But I can now see so much excitement on their faces. We just keep our fingers crossed that we get longer stay together before our next postings come”.
While Kumar Amit had joined the post here in July last year, Meena has taken over the charge now after her maternity leave. The couple hailing from Rajasthan is of the same 2010 batch and entered into an arranged wedlock in 2012. While Amit got the Orissa cadre, he later got it changed to Punjab on the basis of his marriage. Meena’s first posting was as ASP in Bathinda, after which she joined the NRI cell and then proceeded on leave.
“It is mentally so relaxing to be posted in the same station. Or else life it would have been very difficult, especially after we had Ayaan who is now nine-months-old. Being into administration, Amit’s job is relatively easier than mine and he comes as a great support. He often gets free by 5 or 6 pm but there are various security deployment issues that keep on cropping up with me till late,” shares Meena. Kondal, who sits in Meena’s adjoining room, too holds a similar viewpoint. “Girish does get free earlier but I have to be on toes till late night often. Calls keep on pouring in 24x7 and I cannot ignore any. But still I am happy that we have celebrated few months of togetherness here”, beams the IPS officer, who has been a student of Apeejay School here. While Girish is of 2011 batch, Kondal got selected the next year. The couple has celebrated their first anniversary just eight days back. “Ours is a love marriage. We met each other at Hyderabad. My parents are based in Mohali, while Girish’s dad is in Chandigarh. Girish got the J&K cadre, which he got changed to Punjab after our marriage so that we could at least be around”, Kondal narrates. The three couples say that with spouses in the same town, they were enjoying catching up with one another informally as well. Yadav says, “We do meet at parties after office but not that often. But whenever it happens, it’s real fun for we all have common links and same wavelength”.
