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By Our Special Correspondent
BANGALORE, JAN. 8. The former Commissioner of the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA), Jayakar Jerome, is all set to leave for Mumbai to serve as Secretary to the Governor of Maharashtra, S.M. Krishna. Mr. Krishna has sought the services of one of his trusted officers, when he was the Chief Minister of Karnataka, to serve as his principal officer. Mr. Jerome, an IAS officer of the 1983 batch, is currently Secretary to the Government, Minority Welfare. He has experience of having served as Secretary to the former Governor of Karnataka, Khurshed Alam Khan, during 1991-94. According to official sources, the clearance by the Chief Minister, N. Dharam Singh, for the appointment is expected shortly. The new posting for Mr. Jerome should pose no problems as he will be going to Mumbai only on deputation and there will be no change in his IAS cadre. Karnataka has at least six IAS officers on the cadres of other States working here on deputation. In some cases, the Union Ministry of Personnel has granted the change of cadre. Mr. Jerome served as the Commissioner of the BDA almost throughout the chief ministership of Mr. Krishna .He brought about significant changes in its working, finances and image of the authority, which had taken a severe beating over the years. However, after the coalition Government came to power, M.N. Vidyashankar replaced Mr. Jerome in July 2004. Mr. Dharam Singh had defended the transfer and noted that it was done as Mr. Jerome had held the post for four years and nine months. The Government had posted an equally competent officer Mr. Vidyashankar to the BDA, he had said. After becoming the Governor, Mr. Krishna appointed Sridhar, Special Officer, who had served him when he was the Chief Minister as one of his aides at the Mumbai Raj Bhavan. Although there are no precedents of any governor of Karnataka appointing an IAS officer serving in his home State as his secretary, the State Government had sought the services of an ICS and two Indian Police (IP) officers serving elsewhere. In 1954, the Mysore Government appointed Devasahayam as the Inspector-General of Police overlooking the seniority of State police officers. After the reorganisation of the State in 1956, the Nijalingappa Government brought the late P.V.R. Rao to be the Chief Secretary replacing M. Puttarangaswamy. It also appointed the late S.N. Hosali as the Inspector-General of Police.
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