Senior IAS officer sacked for non-performance

AFTER TWO IPS officers, the government has sacked a senior IAS officer on grounds of non-performance.

K Narasimha, a 1991-batch IAS officer of Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre, was served with a ‘premature retirement’ order without any notice.

The Appointments Committee of Cabinet approved the decision under Rule 16 (3) of All India Services (Death-cum-retirement Benefits) Rules-1958 and allowed him to get threemonthspayandallowancesinlieuofnotice, official sources said. He has been sacked for alleged non-performance and also due to corruption charges against him, they said.

The action came after a departmental review of the officer’s service allegedly found him unfit for the job.

In a similar action, the Home Ministry had on Tuesday sacked two senior IPS officers for alleged non-performance. Mayank Sheel Chohan, a 1998 batch AGMUT cadre officer, and Raj Kumar Dewangan, a 1992 batch Chhattisgarh cadre officer, have also been given premature retirement under the same service rules.

In 2014, graft-tainted IAS couple from Madhya Pradesh, Arvind and Tinoo Joshi, were dismissed from service, four years after an income-tax search on their house led to detection of disproportionate assets worth Rs 350 crore and recovery of Rs three crore cash.

The Centre is conducting performance review of IAS officers working with central government departments in order to check dead wood. It has also asked state governments to carry out the similar exercise.