transfers.fyiतबादला

Revolving door

K. Jairaj

IAS 1976, Karnataka cadre (retired Additional Chief Secretary)

Retirement May 2012 (day unknown) to Adani Transmission 17 Jun 2015: about 3 years 1 month. Adani's acquisition of UPCL (20 Apr 2015) to his appointment: 58 days.. Then Adani Transmission Ltd.

The cooling-off rule

The rule: AIS (DCRB) Rules 1958, rule 26: one year after retirement.

Outside the one-year rule.

Before and after

  1. Documented

    Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka (Principal Secretary/ACS, Energy Department from June 2008; chairman of BESCOM and the other state distribution companies)

    Oneindia · NIAS · BMS School of Architecture

  2. Interval not dated.

  3. Documented

    Adani Transmission Ltd (now Adani Energy Solutions Ltd, AESL)

    Independent Director, 17 Jun 2015 to 30 Jun 2025

    Mr. Kalaikuruchi Jairaj 01875126 17/06/2015

    Adani Transmission · AESL via BSE

What the office had to do with the company

  1. Approved enhancement of Udupi Power Corporation's (UPCL, then Lanco-owned) plant to 1200 MW and an increase in capital cost of Rs 583.85 crore, subject to CERC approval, with 90% of output to Karnataka ESCOMs; PCKL then set a provisional tariff of Rs 3.127/unit. Adani Power bought UPCL on 20 Apr 2015, 58 days before Jairaj joined Adani Transmission's board.

    When
    25 Oct 2010
    Role
    Government of Karnataka (Energy Department then headed by Jairaj; the order as quoted does not name the officer)
    the GoK agreeing in October 2010 to increase the capital cost of the project by 583.85 crore, excluding IDC, subject to approval by CERC, 1080 MW (90%) out of the enhanced capacity of 1200 MW being required to be sold to Karnataka ESCOMs.
    APTEL via Indian Kanoon, Nov 2020
    By its letter dated 10.11.2010, PCKL intimated Udupi Power that pursuant to the enhancement of generating station capacity as approved by GoK on 25.10.2010, the interim/provisional tariff for 1200 MW worked out to Rs. 3.127/unit.
    APTEL via Indian Kanoon, Nov 2020
    Lanco Infratech on Monday announced that it successfully completed the sell-off of its Udupi power plant to Adani Power
    Business Standard, Apr 2015

We have not found a document showing Jairaj personally signed or recommended the October 2010 approval; he headed the Energy Department in that period (transferred there June 2008; still 'Additional Chief Secretary, Energy' in ISEC's 2010-11 annual report). UPCL was Lanco's when the decision was taken. Adani Transmission (his board) and Adani Power (UPCL's buyer) are sister companies.

What was said

None found; none sought.

Sources

Dates and filings placed side by side; being listed is not a finding of wrongdoing. Sources were opened on Oct 2026.