Bandyopadhyay was set to retire because the chief secretary on May 31
Former chief secretary of West Bengal Alapan Bandyopdhayay on Thursday replied to the Centre’s show-cause notice served to him beneath the Disaster Management Act to clarify his absence from the cyclone evaluate assembly with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 28, an official stated.
In his reply, Bandyopadhyay stated that as per the directive of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, he left the assembly for a evaluate of Cyclone Yaas ravaged Digha, a well-liked sea resort city in Purba Medinipur district, in accordance to the highly-placed official within the secretariat.
The Union Home Ministry had on May 31 served a show-cause notice to Bandyopadhyay beneath a stringent provision of the Disaster Management Act that entails imprisonment up to two years, amid a tug-of-war between the Centre and the Mamata Banerjee authorities over him.
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Bandyopadhyay was set to retire because the chief secretary on May 31, however the state not too long ago sought and obtained permission for extension of his tenure for 3 months as he performed a vital function within the combat in opposition to the COVID-19 pandemic.
He was, nevertheless, handed over a switch directive by the Centre, shortly after a row broke out over the prime minister’s post-cyclone evaluate assembly at Kalaikunda airbase, which the CM and state chief secretary didn’t attend.
Banerjee, together with the chief secretary, met the prime minister for round quarter-hour and left after handing over a report on the devastation brought on by the cyclone within the state.
The bureaucrat, as a substitute of reporting to Delhi, selected to retire and he was subsequently appointed because the CM’s chief adviser.
