Chandigarh Adviser on panel for Secy posts at Centre

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 6

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the empanelment of UT Adviser Dharam Pal for holding the Secretary-level posts at the Centre.

An alumnus of the Punjab Engineering College, Dharam Pal, a 1988-batch IAS officer of the AGMUT cadre, had joined the Chandigarh Administration as the Adviser to the UT Administrator on June 23 this year. He replaced Manoj Parida, who was transferred to Delhi on June 17, six months before the completion of his three-year tenure. Before his present assignment, Dharam Pal was an Additional Secretary in the Department of Fertilisers under the Union Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers, New Delhi.

Stating that he has no intention to go back to the Centre, the Adviser said his priority was to complete the various long-pending projects in the UT. It would be an act of criminality if I left the projects midway, he added.