Madhya Pradesh: IAS officer trains gun on govt again over ‘premature’ transfers

Jangid had earlier levelled allegations of corruption against a senior officer

ITDC INDIA EPRESS/ITDC NEWS R Madhya Pradesh IAS officer Lokesh Kumar Jangid, who was in the eye of a storm recently, has trained his guns at the state government again. Jangid had earlier levelled allegations of corruption against a senior officer on a social media group, which got leaked.

Jangid, a 2014-batch officer currently posted as the additional mission director of the Rajya Shiksha Kendra, posted a string of tweets on Monday evening to say that the Civil Services Board (CSB) of Madhya Pradesh met every fourth day in the year 2020 to approve transfers of IAS officers before completion of minimum tenure (by them).

Jangid himself has been transferred nine times in the duration of 4.5 years in his career. The minimum tenure for three premier services—the IAS, IPS and Indian Forest Service—at each posting is two years.

The officer tweeted a letter (dated July 9) of the deputy secretary (personnel) of the Madhya Pradesh general administration department (GAD) to the department of personnel and training (DoPT) of the Union government to highlight that the state CSB met as many as 91 times in the year 2020 to approve the ‘premature’ transfers. Jangid also tweeted the accompanying list of the dates of the said meetings and the number of officers transferred (before completion of minimum tenure).