JAMMU: The State Government on Tuesday ordered placement of 16 KAS officers belonging to different departmental feeding services, in the Time Scale of Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service, on stop-gap basis, in their own pay and grade.
The placed officers include Pankaj Bhagotra, Sanjay Kumar Bhat, Rajesh Lakhan, Mohammad Alyas Khan and Waseem Raja (Excise and Taxation); Vivek Phonsa and Mamta Devi (Information); Umar Shafi Pandit, Aziz Ahmad Rather, Rajeev Kumar Khajuria, Deepak Dubey, Waseem Raja, Pardeep Kumar and Rakesh Dubey (Rural Development); Hakim Muzaffar (Secretariat-II) and Tariq Hussain (Tourism).