Seeram Sambasiva Rao appointed as new Excise Commissioner

The Kerala authorities has appointed IAS serviceman Seeram Sambasiva Rao arsenic the caller Excise Commissioner.

Mr. Rao had served arsenic the Officer connected Special Duty to the erstwhile Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. The 2012-batch IAS serviceman of Kerala cadre volition proceed to clasp each the existing further charges alongside his caller responsibility, according to the authorities order.

Notably, the assignment marks a instrumentality to the signifier of placing IAS officers successful the station of Excise Commissioner, a presumption that had been held by IPS officers since 2016.

The improvement is based connected a caller directive from the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), which considered a petition by the Kerala IAS Association seeking a declaration that the posts notified by the Union authorities arsenic belonging to the IAS Kerala cadre indispensable beryllium filled lone by serving IAS officers.

Subsequently, the Tribunal ruled that cardinal posts including the Excise Commissioner, Director of the Kerala Institute of Local Administration (KILA) and Director General of the Institute of Management successful Government (IMG) are IAS cadre posts, and tin beryllium held lone by serving IAS officers

As a result, Additional Director General of Police M.R. Ajith Kumar was removed from the station of Excise Commissioner.