Satyagopal, the officer no one wants

WHEN Satyagopal, a 1988-batch IAS officer of the AGMUT cadre, was shifted on February 11 to Delhi from Diu, Daman and Dadra & Nagar Haveli, where he had worked as an administrator, he did his best (read used his BJP connections) to stave off the transfer. The officer is close to two Sinhas from Bihar, Yashwant and Shatrughan. He had had a controversial tenure. A Sai Baba devotee, he reportedly begins his day in the afternoon and had come under flak for responding to situations most unlike a public servant. He was linked with the atrocities on Scheduled Caste officers and the fake ration card scandal. Nand Lal Singh, an official of DANICS posted in Daman, had filed several complaints regarding Satyagopal’s misbehaviour and incompetency with the Home Ministry but nobody paid any heed.|
Even Natubhai Patel, MP of Diu, Daman and Dadra & Nagar Haveli and member of the Home Ministry’s standing committee, has complained about administrative irregularities and misuse of portfolio during Satyagopal’s tenure and an inquiry has been instituted. As a result, when he finally arrived in Delhi, Sheila Dikshit reportedly refused to take him into her government. He ultimately joined the Chandigarh administration.