The Punjab government Thursday divested IAS officer Ajoy Kumar Sinha of the charge of administrative secretary of power department and chairman-cum-managing director of the PSPCL and PSTCL. The department has been handed over to Basant Garg.

The 1996-batch IAS officer has not been assigned any new posting and has been asked to report to the Department of Personnel. The orders, issued by Chief Secretary K A P Sinha, state that new posting orders for Sinha will be issued later.

Sinha’s transfer comes two months after Cabinet Minister Sanjeev Arora was handed over the department of power. Sources said that the minister and Sinha “were not on the same page” and were having some issues over taking decisions on transfers, issuing of tenders and also on selling of power department’s land under

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