India News: Sharing details of PM Modi’s recent visit to West Bengal to assess impact of the Cyclone Yaas, the Centre on Tuesday released a point-wise rebuttal of
Former West Bengal chief secretary's failure to report to the DoPT yesterday has sparked a debate on whether the Centre is authorised to take action against IAS officer, who are deploted with the state.
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee defied protocol in a review meeting chaired by PM Modi on Cyclone Yaas, say Government of India (GoI) sources
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee defied protocol in a review meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the post-cyclonic situation in the state and is misleading on the controversy surrounding chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay, said Government of India (GoI) sources on Tuesday.
After the Prime Minister landed at Kalaikunda last week, Banerjee left for Digha after meeting him briefly and did not attend the review meeting over the damage caused by Cyclone Yaas. Mamata maintains she took the Prime Minister s permission before leaving but the GoI sources say that the PM Modi had not given permission to Banerjee to leave the meeting.
Mamata Banerjee had said yesterday that Bandyopadhyay has retired from service on May 31 and will not join in Delhi and has been made Chief Advisor. The central government had on Friday last issued an order to recall Bandyopadhyay. The order said that the placement of his services with the government has been approved.
"The order is perfectly constitutional since Chief Secretary is an All India Services officer. He chose to ignore his constitutional duties, as a result of which no presentation was given to PM and no officer of the West Bengal government attended the PM's review meeting," sources said.