Zoramthanga, the Chief Minister of Mizoram has requested Union Home Minister Amit Shah to replace the incumbent Chief Secretary Renu Sharma, as she is not familiar with the Mizo language and the local people generally do not understand Hindi, officials said here on Tuesday. A Mizoram government official said that the Chief Minister before joining the new Chief Secretary on November 1 had written to Home Minister Shah stating that after the retirement of Chief Secretary Lalnunmawia Chuaugo, a Gujarat cadre IAS officer, incumbent Additional Chief Secretary J.C Ramthanga (a Manipur cadre IAS officer) should be the next Chief Secretary. However, the Home Ministry posted Sharma, an AGMUT cadre 1988 batch IAS officer, as the new Chief Secretary of Mizoram. "In such a background, a Chief Secretary without the working knowledge of the Mizo language will never be an effective and efficient Chief Secretary. Due to this fact, the Government of India never posted a Chief Secretary who did not have a working knowledge of the Mizo language since the creation of the state," the Chief Minister said.

Source: dna November 09, 2021 19:18 UTC