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Top official puts in papers, to join Eenadu TV

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Jagdish Chandra Katil has 17 months of service left

JAIPUR: Senior bureaucrat Jagdish Chandra Katil has taken voluntary retirement from Indian Administrative Service to join Eenadu TV as its CEO for Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. Mr.Katil, known for his successful tenures as chairman of the Rajasthan Cooperative Dairy Federation and Commissioner of the Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) during the current regime in the State, was holding the post of Transport Commissioner when he put in his papers. He will take over charge on Monday.

Mr. Katil, strongly loved and hated by Rajasthan politicians depending on the situations they came across him in the past, was considered as one of the fire fighters of the Vasundhara Raje Government. His leaving the service 17 months before his superannuation has evoked considerable curiosity in administrative and political circles here. Mr. Katil, with proven administrative acumen, has been reportedly entrusted with the task of revamping ETV channel in the two States before the Assembly elections.

“It is for perhaps for the first time that any media channel’s administrative and editorial departments have been handed over to an IAS officer,” sources close to Mr.Katil, noted. He will look after the channel’s reporting network, marketing, cable network and programmes. Mr.Katil would remain stationed at Jaipur but would have a separate office near Raj Mandir Cinema other than the present ETV premises near the Nehru Sahakar Bhawan.

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