What’s holding up Veenu Gupta’s joining in RERA?

Jaipur: Senior IAS Veenu Gupta has not taken over the chair of RERA Chairman, although her appointment order was issued forty days back and it has been over one month since she applied for VRS. Owing to the time that has passed, the entire bureaucracy is asking one question: Why is Veenu Gupta not handling the reins of RERA?

It is clear that first DoP will have to accept her VRS. Thus the question remains that when the state government has approved her appointment as RERA Chairman then what is the logic behind the delay in approving her VRS?

Word is that there were some works left in the mines department which were to be done by Veenu Gupta. But even these works would have got completed prior to the MCC coming into force on October 9. In that case the state government could have approved her VRS two days before the code of conduct came into force and opened the doors of RERA for Gupta. Later it was said that the system under which RERA Chairman has been appointed, the code of conduct does not have any effect on it. But it is now being said that both in VRS approval and joining in RERA, the MCC could surely cause a halt.

Thus to avert any risk, the ending of code of conduct is awaited which will end after December 3 i.e. when results are announced.

However, the sources have revealed that after the polls, government may seek a relaxation in code of conduct and thereafter before November 30, Veenu Gupta could take over the post of RERA Chairman.

It is believed that the election commission will provide the relaxation. But a few people do not agree to this summation and stress on the idiom of ‘wait and watch’.