Srinagar: Government on Saturday accorded sanction to the voluntary retirement of Farooq Ahmad Shah (IAS) from February 19.
Shah was last posted as Secretary of the public health engineering, irrigation and flood control and disaster management, relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction departments.
“In Pursuance of sub-rule (2) of Rule 16 of the All India Services (Death-cum Retirement Benefits) Rules 1958, read with proviso second below this sub-rule, sanction is accorded to the voluntary retirement of Mr Farooq Ahmad Shah (IAS) (jk:2004) from the Indian Administrative Service with effect from 19-2-2019,” reads an order issued by the government.
Farooq Ahmad Shah is likely to join politics but so far he has kept cards close to his chest.