Vijai Shankar Dubey

V S Dubey
Former Chief Secretary / Vice Chancellor
Personal details
Born (1942-07-15) 15 July 1942[1]
Children Shalini
Shivani
Vikas
Education Postgraduate in History from Allahabad University.
Alma mater Allahabad University,

Vijay Shankar Dubey is an Indian civil servant from the 1966 batch of Indian Administrative Services (IAS). He is the only IAS officer to have served as Chief Secretary of two states Bihar & Jharkhand.[2]

Career

V S Dubey is a native of Uttar Pradesh. He was a gold medalist from the Allahabad University and joined IAS in 1966. He was the district magistrate of Patna in the 1970s.[3]

He was appointed as Chief Secretary of Bihar in 1998 and then was handpicked by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government to be the first Chief Secretary of Jharkhand State in 2000[4]. After retirement in 2002, he went on to serve as vice-chancellor of Nalanda Open University from 2003 to 2009.[5][6] Dubey was the first officer to be appointed as Chairman of the Bihar Administrative Reforms Commission.[7] On 11 June 2010, Dubey was appointed as an advisor to Jharkhand Governor MOH Farook.[8][9] Dubey, as advisor to Jharkhand Governor during the President's rule, held portfolios of finance, industries, personnel, cabinet vigilance, mines and geology, energy, road construction, building construction, forest and environment, revenue and land reforms etc.[10] Dubey is remembered as a no-nonsense, development-oriented officer, credited with initiating several schemes, including intensifying, expanding railway network in Jharkhand. He has worked with chief minister Nitish Kumar in various capacities.[11] Dubey is the Working President of Mahavir Cancer Sansthan in Patna in Bihar District of India.[12]

Fodder Scam

Lalu Prasad Yadav, the Chief Minister of undivided Bihar, when the then finance commissioner V S Dubey found financial irregularities. On 19 January 1996, State Finance Secretary Dubey ordered investigations into cases of excessive withdrawals.[13] He followed it up on 20 January 1996 by dispatching one of his secretaries to make an inquiry of the excessive withdrawals of money by the Animal Husbandry department from the Ranchi treasury. The inquiry uncovered criminal wrongdoing which is commonly known as Fodder Scam.[14]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.babusofindia.com/2014/05/gujarat-model-up-babu-5-reasons-why-pm.html
  2. ↑ "Dubey appointed Chief Secy of Jharkhand". 12 November 2000.
  3. ↑ "Successor list of District Magistrate Patna". patna.bih.nic.in.
  4. ↑ "Jharkhand: Born amid mayhem".
  5. ↑ "Bihar babus get prize posting in retirement". 31 August 2012.
  6. ↑ {https://www.telegraphindia.com/1151123/jsp/frontpage/story_54476.jsp
  7. ↑ "Nitish constitutes Bihar Administrative Commission".
  8. ↑ "VS Dubey apointed as third advisor to Jharkhand Governor". news.webindia123.com.
  9. ↑ "Ex- CS appointed Advisor to Jharkhand Governor - igovernment.in". www.igovernment.in.
  10. ↑ "The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Jharkhand - Dubey push for projects". www.telegraphindia.com.
  11. ↑ https://www.telegraphindia.com/1151123/jsp/frontpage/story_54476.jsp. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ↑ "Welcome to MCS". www.mahavircancersansthan.com.
  13. ↑ "Lalu Prasad Yadav convicted in fodder scam: How a one line fax unearthed corruption scandal, unseated ex-Bihar CM - Firstpost". www.firstpost.com.
  14. ↑ Desk, The Hindu Net (8 May 2017). "The fodder scam: a recap" – via www.thehindu.com.
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