Badal’s “Blue Eyed” former bureaucrat appointed as Chairman, PSEB after 2 months of retirement
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ March 5,2025
The state government has appointed Dr Amarpal Singh, a retired IAS officer as the new Chairman of Punjab School Education Board (PSEB).
The post of Chairman of Punjab School Education Board is vacant since August 2024 after its former chairperson Dr Satbir Bedi had tendered her resignation from the post, citing “personal reasons”. He retired on December 31,2024.
Dr Amarpal Singh( B.V.Sc and Ah) is a 1993 PCS officer was promoted to IAS in 2017. He was allotted 2008 Punjab cadre. He remained in key posts like State Transport Commissioner, Director Higher Education, CEO, PEDA, Special Secretary Revenue and Rehabilitation etc.
His name was allegedly involved in infamous “Iron Ore” scam.
The iron ore scam took place in 2004 when 1989-batch IAS officer Saroj was the managing director (MD) of PAFC and 1993 batch PCS officer Dr Amarpal was the additional managing director. Hindustan Times had broken the iron ore scam. Punjab Civil Service (PCS) officer Dr Amarpal Singh, whom the then chief minister Parkash Singh Badal had once punished for being “guilty of gross negligence, to say the least” in Rs 24-crore iron ore scam, was later exonerated by Badal by just giving a warning. “The officer is warned to be careful in future”, wrote Badal, a day before the implementation of election code of conduct, salvaging him of the punishment in the scam involving purchase of iron ore by the Punjab Agro Foodgrains Corporation (PAFC), in which IAS officer Kirpa Shankar Saroj was punished. While Saroj was punished on the advice of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), Dr Amarpal was punished on the advice of Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) in 2013. But, later the relief given by the than CM Parkash Singh Badal had paved the way for Dr Amarpal’s elevation to the IAS rank. ( The information was taken fron Hindustan Times News that was published on May 25,2027 under heading- Iron ore scam: IAS officer punished, Badal saved ‘blue-eyed’ Punjab Civil Service officer)
Badal’s “Blue Eyed” former bureaucrat appointed as Chairman, PSEB after 2 months of retirement .He is a resident of Chandigarh. His father Dr Bachittar Singh was a government doctor when terrorists killed him.
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