MHA tells Haryana to relieve Panchkula DC Vinay Pratap Singh for new stint as Chandigarh DC

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 15

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has directed the Haryana Government to immediately relieve IAS officer Vinay Pratap Singh to enable him take up his new assignment as the Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Chandigarh.

Recently, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India, approved the proposal of the MHA for inter-cadre deputation of Vinay Pratap from Haryana cadre to AGMUT cadre (Chandigarh segment) for a period of three years or until further orders, whichever is earlier.

Vinay Pratap, a Haryana cadre IAS officer of 2011-batch, is currently serving as the DC in the neighbouring district of Panchkula.

The MHA also directed the UT Adviser to intimate the date of joining of Vinay Pratap to the Ministry. On joining of Vinay Pratap as the DC of Chandigarh, the present incumbent Mandip Singh Brar, a 2005-batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre, would be relieved from the post.

The Haryana Government had sent a panel of three IAS officers, including Vinay Pratap Singh, Prabhjot Singh and Mukul Kumar, to the UT for the post of the DC, which is reserved for a Haryana-cadre IAS officer.

The UT Administrator had recommended the name of Vinay Pratap Singh to the MHA for the post of DC.

However, the three-year inter-cadre deputation of preset DC Brar had ended on October 31 this year.