New Delhi: In a sudden development, the private secretary and two additional private secretaries to Union Environment minister Bhupender Yadav have been shunted out through a string of orders issued on July 3.
All three have been part of Yadav’s office for several years now- going back to 2022-23.
PS to the minister, Amar Singh- an IRS-IT officer of the 2010 batch- has been serving in the capacity for nearly five years now. He was also PS to Yadav when the latter held charge as Labour minister from 2021 to 2024 and was reappointed as PS after Yadav took over as Environment minister following Lok Sabha elections 2024.
Singh has now been repatriated to his parent cadre ‘on administrative ground’.
Additional PS, Shailesh Kumar Singh, of Central Secretariat Service (CSS) has also been prematurely repatriated to his parent cadre.
The second additional PS, Ayush Saran has been ‘terminated with immediate effect.
