Arvind Kejriwal to walk the talk with Team IIT
24 Dec 2013 5:42 AM IST
Rajendra Kumar, currently Secretary, Information Technology and Secretary, Higher Education, who was earlier Power Secretary from 2007 to 2010, is likely to be assigned the job to implement the most talked about poll promise of bringing down power
tariff by 50 per cent.
If whispers in corridors of power are to be believed, these technocrats turned bureaucrats are likely to get plum posts. ‘As IITians have a strong sense of brotherhood, they trust one another more than some other officer from other institute or university,’ said a senior IAS officer posted in Delhi Secretariat.
The talks in the secretariat suggest the next Delhi CM may fall back on his ‘brethren’ to deliver his poll promises. The city has four IITians serving the Delhi government. The senior most among them is Puneet Goel, an officer of 1990 batch, who is from IIT Kanpur. Rajendra Kumar and Manish Gupta, both 1991 batch IAS, were classmates in IIT Kanpur.
Goel is now Transport Commissioner cum Principal Secretary while Manish Gupta is commissioner of South DMC. Gupta has wide experience in infrastructure projects and social welfare programmes of MCD. He may get assignments related to development of unauthorised colonies. Sanjeev Khirwar, an alumni of IIT Delhi, is personal secretary to the women and child development minister. He too may be brought in.
tariff by 50 per cent.
If whispers in corridors of power are to be believed, these technocrats turned bureaucrats are likely to get plum posts. ‘As IITians have a strong sense of brotherhood, they trust one another more than some other officer from other institute or university,’ said a senior IAS officer posted in Delhi Secretariat.
The talks in the secretariat suggest the next Delhi CM may fall back on his ‘brethren’ to deliver his poll promises. The city has four IITians serving the Delhi government. The senior most among them is Puneet Goel, an officer of 1990 batch, who is from IIT Kanpur. Rajendra Kumar and Manish Gupta, both 1991 batch IAS, were classmates in IIT Kanpur.
Goel is now Transport Commissioner cum Principal Secretary while Manish Gupta is commissioner of South DMC. Gupta has wide experience in infrastructure projects and social welfare programmes of MCD. He may get assignments related to development of unauthorised colonies. Sanjeev Khirwar, an alumni of IIT Delhi, is personal secretary to the women and child development minister. He too may be brought in.
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