Race Heats Up For Top Helms in Chandigarh

Chandigarh's top administrative posts are still vacant and some of them will get vacant by August, and as per sources, new appointments will soon be made. According to top sources, three key posts are vacant in Chandigarh after incumbents transferred to new postings. These are the Home Secretary, Finance Secretary and Chandigarh Municipal Commissioner. Sources add that Amit Agarwal, IAS: 2003 batch, and Mandeep Brar: 2005 batch, belonging to the Haryana cadre, are said to be frontrunners for the post of Home Secretary. Meanwhile, for finance secretary, three names from the Punjab cadre are in the race- Amit Dhaka, IAS, 2006 batch; Mohammad Tayyub, 2007 batch; and Amit Kumar, IAS of 2008 batch.