Anoop Chandra Pandey to be new UP Chief Secretary
Lucknow, June 27: The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday named senior IAS official Anoop Chandra Pandey as the new Chief Secretary of the state, an official spokesman said.
Pandey is a 1984-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer and currently posted as the Industrial and Infrastructure Development Commissioner (IIDC).
Credited with the success of the UP Investors' Summit in February this year, Pandey takes over from Rajive Kumar, a 1981-batch officer, who is retiring on June 30.
The Chief Secretary-designate supersedes seven officials including Raj Pratap Singh, Deepak Singhal, Praveer Kumar, Chandra Prakash, Chanchal Tiwari and Sanjeev Saran.
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BMTC collects over Rs 19 lakh as fine from those travelling without tickets, occupying ladies seat
Bengaluru (PTI): The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has collected over Rs 19 lakh as a penalty from 10,069 passengers who were penalised for travelling without tickets and occupying seats exclusively reserved for ladies in the last three months, officials said on Thursday.
The checking staff of BMTC have intensified checking of buses operated in and around Bengaluru City to detect ticketless travelling by passengers, they said.
According to BMTC, during the months of August, September and October, the checking staff checked 57,219 trips and penalised 8,891 ticketless passengers by collecting Rs 17,96,030 as penalty and 5,268 cases were booked against conductors for their dereliction of duty.
During the same period, they have also penalised 1,178 male passengers for occupying seats exclusively reserved for lady passengers and imposed fines by collecting Rs 1,17,800 in accordance with the KMV (Karnataka Motor Vehicle) Rules of the MV Act of 1988.
"In total, during the months of August, September and October, 10,069 passengers were penalised and Rs 19,13,830 was collected," the BTMC officials stated.
