Satish Chandra IAS is new Home Secretary of Punjab
By Amrit Pal Brar
Bathinda, 01 July 2019: Punjab government has appointed Satish Chandra IAS of 1985 batch who is serving as Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) Health and Family Welfare as Home Secretary. He is a very hard working and dedicated officer.
Known for simplicity, Satish Chandra is one of the very upright officers of the state. He is a result oriented officer and has given excellent output, wherever he is posted. His joining in the Home department will be an advantage for the people who are connected with the department as he known for taking quick decisions.
Satish Chandra has served as Member (Finance) in the National Highway Authority of India, from 2013 to June 2016 for three years. He has brought in many changes in the functioning of NHAI, which has accelerated the pace of the road projects. It was the time when, numbers of cases related with the state were fast tracked in NHAI.
Satish Chandra has also served as Planning and Finance Secretary and later on as Health, Family Planning, Medical Education and Research Secretary in the state. During his stint in the planning department, he has streamlined the functioning the District Planning Boards, which are lying defunct these days. Funds of hundreds of Crores were spent through these boards in the districts and regular meetings were done.
During his tenure as Secretary in the Health department, Satish Chandra activated the schemes of the National Health Mission in the state. Hundreds of posts lying vacant under the National Health Mission were filled in a transparent manner and central funds were utilised in stipulated time and lots of infrastructure was built in the civil hospitals of the state.
Famous 100 feet road in Bathinda city, which is considered as life line of the city is a result of the strong willed efforts of Satish Chandra. He as an administrator of MC Bathinda removed 18 encroachments done by the influential people on this road in single day. He is still memorised for carrying out this action by the people of Bathinda. (Author can be contacted at amritbrar2012@gmail.com 9814313405)
