President restores Chaturvedi's gradings

Brushing aside the adverse remarks and gradings by the Haryana Govenment against Sanjeev Chaturvedi, a 2002 batch Hayana IFS cadre, the President of India has restored the gradings awarded by the reviewing authority, clearing the roadblocks in his career.
"The President of India, ... Upholds the memorials/representations submitted by Sanjeev Chaturvedi and the orders that for the financial year 2010-11, the grading awarded by the Reviewing Authority (nine points) would be final and the other APAR initiated and recorded by the Accepting authority altogether stands discarded;
"for financial year 2011-12, the grading by the reviewing authority (eight and half points) is to be treated as final grading and all the entries recorded by the Accepting authority including the adverse remarks and grading, are expunged, in totality, with immediate effect," the order dated January 31 says.

As per the All India Services (Performance appraisal Report) 2007 rules-instruction regarding numerical grading, the grading between 8-10 is rated as outstanding while any grading below 4 is rated as zero.
In the financial year 2010-11, the reporting authority had given 9 out of 10 but the Haryana govt downgraded it to 3.5 with several adverse remarks against the officer, who is known to be a whistle blower.
The same story of downgrading the PAR of the officer from 8.5 to zero was repeated for the financial year 2011-12.
This presidential intervention is the fourth one in that past six years in the career of the officer.

The first intervention took place in January 2008 when President quashed the suspension order issued against the officer by the government of Haryana for his efforts in preventing destruction of a wildfife life sanctuary and preventing illegal expenditure of crores in the name of development of the Herbal Park on a private land belonging an influential politician of the ruling party.