Talukdar to take over DGH reins today
6 Feb 2014 6:45 AM IST
Talukdar, who currently is director for exploration in Oil India Ltd. (OIL), will replace a bureaucrat at the DGH.
‘Government of India has appointed B N Talukdar as the DG, DGH effective from 6 February, 2014,’ an OIL statement said.
The DGH, which traditionally was headed by a technocrat, for the first time in its history saw a bureaucrat being appointed as Director General when in June 2012 Rajiv Nayan Choubey, a 1981 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre was handpicked for the job.
The appointment of a bureaucrat as the head of the highly technical arm of the oil ministry had raised eyebrows then as it was not clear how the selection was made without the post being advertised. There was also no selection panel formed to choose among eligible candidates, it was said then.
Choubey, a post-graduate in Physics, was development commissioner (handlooms) in the ministry of textiles before becoming D-G, DGH. He was appointed head of DGH after then D-G S K Srivastava moved to OIL as CMD. Talukdar, 59, was selected by a government search panel in August last year. He would have exactly a year as the head of DGH.
‘Government of India has appointed B N Talukdar as the DG, DGH effective from 6 February, 2014,’ an OIL statement said.
The DGH, which traditionally was headed by a technocrat, for the first time in its history saw a bureaucrat being appointed as Director General when in June 2012 Rajiv Nayan Choubey, a 1981 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre was handpicked for the job.
The appointment of a bureaucrat as the head of the highly technical arm of the oil ministry had raised eyebrows then as it was not clear how the selection was made without the post being advertised. There was also no selection panel formed to choose among eligible candidates, it was said then.
Choubey, a post-graduate in Physics, was development commissioner (handlooms) in the ministry of textiles before becoming D-G, DGH. He was appointed head of DGH after then D-G S K Srivastava moved to OIL as CMD. Talukdar, 59, was selected by a government search panel in August last year. He would have exactly a year as the head of DGH.
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