Anil Baijal takes oath as Lieutenant Governor of Delhi today

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NEW DELHI: Former Union home secretary 70-year-old Anil Baijal,  IAS officer of 1969 batch on Saturday, December 31,2016 takes oath as Lieutenant Governor of Delhi in the backdrop of escalating confrontation between the AAP government and the Centre on a range of contentious issue including control over bureaucracy. Anil Baijal was administrated oath of office and secrecy as 20th L-G of Delhi by chief justice of Delhi high court G Rohini at Raj Niwas in Civil Lanes area of North Delhi. Oath ceremony of Baijal, begins in the presence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his Cabinet colleagues, senior bureaucrats of the Delhi government including host of invitees. Baijal, who had served as Union home secretary under the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government besides holding key positions in several other ministries, will have to find a way out to work with the AAP government which had an acrimonious relation with Najeeb Jung who quit as L-G last week.
Baijal, known to follow the rule book, will have to take a series of important decisions including on the report of Shungulu committee, set up by Jung to examine over 400 files pertaining to decisions taken by the AAP government in the last two years. The Shungulu committee has reportedly pointed out "irregularities" in some of the Kejriwal government ' s decisions. Baijal will also have to appoint a new chairman of Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission which has been "headless" since November after the appointment of incumbent Krishna Saini was turned down by Jung. Baijal, who had retired from service in 2006 as urban development secretary, served as vice-chairman of Delhi Development Authority and is known to be well versed with the city administration. Baijal was actively associated with the designing and country-wide roll-out of Rs 60,000-crore Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission  launched by the Manmohan Singh government. Jung and AAP dispensation had clashed over a range of issues including transfer and posting of bureaucrats, setting up of inquiry commissions and among others. There was a running battle between L-G office and Kejriwal government with the latter constantly challenging the former ' s supremacy in the city administration. Jung had won the court battle as the Delhi high court had stamped the primacy of L-G in the affairs of Government of NCT. However, AAP government had approached the Supreme Court challenging the high court verdict and during a recent hearing in the case, the apex court had said the elected government should have some powers.
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