Sunil Kumar
IAS, Chhattisgarh cadre (retired Chief Secretary)
IAS retirement 28 Feb 2014 to NDTV 30 Dec 2022 is 3,227 days, but he held later state and PSU-board posts whose end dates are not known.. Then New Delhi Television Ltd.
The cooling-off rule
The rule: AIS (DCRB) Rules 1958, rule 26: one year after retirement.
Far outside the one-year rule.
Before and after
Documented
Chief Secretary, Chhattisgarh (later: Vice-Chairman, Chhattisgarh State Planning Commission from about May/June 2014; independent director, South Eastern Coalfields Ltd from 17 Nov 2015)
Interval not dated.
Documented
New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV)
Additional Director (Non-Executive, Independent), 30 Dec 2022; resigned 9 Mar 2023
Mr. Sunil Kumar (DIN: 07379007) as an Additional Director in the capacity of Non-Executive, Independent Director.
What the office had to do with the company
Adani's Chhattisgarh coal role (MDO for RRVUNL's Parsa East-Kanta Basan block; production began April 2013) falls in his Chief Secretary tenure, but no state decision naming him was found. He joined NDTV the same day as Aman Kumar Singh (former principal secretary to the Chhattisgarh CM, now Adani group; held in conglomerates.json).
What was said
None found; none sought.
Sources
- business-standard.com
- timesofindia.indiatimes.com
- d3u7ubx0okog7j.cloudfront.net
- drop.ndtv.com
- nsearchives.nseindia.com
- staffnews.in
Dates and filings placed side by side; being listed is not a finding of wrongdoing. Sources were opened on Oct 2026.
Photo: Press Information Bureau / Ministry of Railways, Government of India, via Wikimedia Commons, GODL-India