There is something curious about the Nizamabad police commissionerate, which has been finding it hard to retain any IPS officer posted as commissioner. In the last eight years, only one senior IPS officer, Karthikeya, served a long term as CP. The others barely hit the one-year mark, and after the recent transfer of Kalmeshwer Shinganevar, neighbouring Kamareddy district superintendent of police Ch.
Sindhu Sharma is holding additional charge as CP of Nizamabad. And now, she too has reportedly sought a transfer. While the discussions on this centre around how the political pulls were too hard to bear on the cops posted as CP is the possible reason why no one wants to stay long, the joke doing the round is it is easier to catch a robber in Nizamabad than to catch an IPS officer to work in the town.
-=-=-=-=-=- IAS officer Smita Sabharwal, often referred to as the ‘People's Officer’, has added yet another twist to her unpredictable career. Known for her trailblazing record as the first woman secretary in Telangana’s CMO, under the BRS regime, and her decade-long stint there, Smita's fortunes seemed to have nosedived when the Congress government assumed power in December 2023. Initially transferred to the Telangana State Finance Commission — a move widely seen as a sidelining — Smita appeared destined for bureaucratic obscurity.
However, in a surprising turn of events, this week, she was appointed as the secretary of the tourism department, a key portfolio in the Congre.