Raja Yaqoob Farooq, Indian Revenue Service (IRS-2013 batch) officer who hails from south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, had qualified civil services examination conducted by UPSC in 2013 and subsequently, he was allocated IRS, Income Tax departments, will be joining the Government of J&K on a deputation basis next week.
Yaqoob is currently posted as Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Income Tax in Delhi NCR Circle. He has mostly discharged his duties in the investigation wing of Income Tax.
Last week, MHA has written to the entire Group A organized central service cadre controlling authorities to give willingness of the officers who want to serve in the UT of J&K and Ladakh on deputation in the wake of acute shortage of officers.
It is important to mention that there are many more officers in central services from J&K who have qualified the civil services exam in the last few years and have got an opportunity to serve in the Government of India.