KM CHANDRASEKHAR TO GET FOURTH EXTENSION

KM CHANDRASEKHAR TO GET 

SIX MONTHS EXTENSION

AS CABINET SECRETARY

By R Rajagopalan

Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is set to give six months

extension to his Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrasekhar.

Insiders say that Dr Singh wants to bring Rahul Khullar

to the exalted position. But there are three officials who

are much senior to Khullar.

PM left for Ethiopia without making a successor plan

of KM Chandrasekhar.For senior position like Cab Sec

a month of training is given to the new appointee

as OSD. PM returns on Sunday and from then one fortnight

is left for a new face. Since there is not exercise done

at the highest level of bureaucracy, it is taken for granted

that KM Chandrasekhar get fourth extension.

UPA2 has completed seven years, but had just only two
Cabinet Secretaries. BK Chaturvedi and KM Chandrasekhar.

The Union Cabinet is likely to amend the Civil Service rule

further once Prime Minister returns from Ethiopia visit.

If such provision is incorporated, KM Chandrasekhar will

go down in the history of having served the longest
Cabinet Secretary by circumventing other contendors.

This exercise has been carried out to provide Dr Singh's

pet official Rahul Khullar to succeed KM Chandrasekhar.

Khullar is 1953 born, he can go upto 2013.There are two more

seniors in 1975 batch with Khullar like Rentala Chandrasekhar

and Sindhushree Khullar. 

1973 and 1974 IAS officers are cursing the UPA2 with their

teeth tight, as Cabinet Secretary position was stuck with

1970 lucky batch. And no forward movement. 

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