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Ashok Gehlot entrusts Jaipur administration to experienced hands

As far as running Jaipur administration is concerned, the Ashok Gehlot government has relied on experienced hands. The appointments clearly show that the bureaucrats who have been entrusted with major responsibility have long experience of dealing with district administration as RAS officers. Jaipur collector Jagroop Singh Yadav; Vijay Pal Singh, Jaipur municipal corporation commissioner, and K C Verma, Divisional commissioner of Jaipur, all of them have been promoted to IAS from the RAS cadre.

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As far as running Jaipur administration is concerned, the Ashok Gehlot government has relied on experienced hands. The appointments clearly show that the bureaucrats who have been entrusted with major responsibility have long experience of dealing with district administration as RAS officers. Jaipur collector Jagroop Singh Yadav; Vijay Pal Singh, Jaipur municipal corporation commissioner, and K C Verma, Divisional commissioner of Jaipur, all of them have been promoted to IAS from the RAS cadre.

Verma, who was till now divisional commissioner of Kota while Jagroop Singh Yadav was briefly posted as special Secretary in GAD and before that he was posted as secretary in bus terminal authority while Vijay Pal Singh was posted as director in horticulture department.

In the recent past, direct IAS officers have been on these posts. However after the Gehlot government came to power now in December it has posted these three promoted IAS officers on key posts. However another important post of JDA commissioner is being occupied by T Ravikant who is direct IAS recruit.

Yadav has been made the collector for the first time and has firmly and swiftly got into the shoes of district collector and district magistrate. He will also have the responsibility as chief election officer of Jaipur district in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. In fact, in last few years directly recruited IAS officers have been posted as Jaipur collector.

Before Yadav, IAS Siddharth Majahan was district collector and before him IAS Krishna Kunal was district collector of Jaipur. In case of divisional commissioner before K C Verma, till a few weeks ago, IAS T Ravikant was divisional commissioner before being transferred by the Gehlot Government. Before that IAS Rajeshwar Singh was divisional commissioner and all these officials were directly recruited in IAS. The divisional commissioners have important responsibilities of coordinating with district collectors of the division and many times also take the charge as vice chancellor in the universities. During his role as vice chancellor, IAS Madhukar Gupta who was divisional commissioner of Jaipur in 2013 took to teaching also once.

It was only for a brief period that promoted IAS Mohan Lal Yadav was made the JMC commissioner.

Jagroop S Yadav

Collector Jagroop Singh Yadav has been made the collector for the first time and has firmly and swiftly got into the shoes of district collector and district magistrate. He will also have the responsibility as chief election officer of Jaipur district in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. He was also posted as special secretary in GAD.

Vijay Pal Singh

Vijay Pal Singh has already taken the charge of JMC soon after the transfer list. He was earlier posted as director in Horticulture department during tenure of Raje government and also has stints in bureau of investment promotion. Between 2008 to 2013, during the second term of Ashok Gehlot as chief minister, Singh was posted in CMO as dy secretary.

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