Chandigarh, 15 May 2020
A 2014-batch IAS officer of the Haryana cadre resigned on Monday, citing ‘personal safety on government duty’ as the reason for it.
The Opposition Congress termed her resignation ‘shocking’, asking Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar if it was not a “proof of his failure”.
Rani Nagar (35) currently held the charge of the director, Archives Department; and the additional director, social justice and empowerment.
Recently, Nagar had posted on her Facebook page that she will resign after the coronavirus lockdown was lifted.
She sent her resignation to state chief secretary Keshni Anand Arora, requesting her to forward it to a competent authority in the Union government.
The letter has been received at the chief secretary’s office, an official said. However, Nagar did not elaborate on what she meant by the reason of her resignation. The officer could not be contacted over the phone. Nagar has also sent copies of the resignation to the president, prime minister, Haryana governor and the chief minister through e-mail.
“The reason for submitting this resignation is the personal safety on government duty,” she said in a letter to the chief secretary.
“I do hereby most humbly submit to you my resignation from the post of Indian Administrative Service with immediate effect, that is effective from May 4, 2020, forenoon,” she wrote.
The letter was also posted on her Facebook page. She later left Chandigarh for her hometown Ghaziabad with her sister.
She posted on her Facebook page that she had taken permission to move out of the city. ( PTI )
