amaravati chief secretary lv subramanyams decision to call for an explanation from principal secretary in chief ministers office cmo praveen prakash on the charges of disobedience and violation of business rules is creating ripples in the state administrative circles praveen prakash is said to be the first officer from cmo to get such a notice in the states history interestingly praveen prakash who served in delhi as resident commissioner of ap during tdp regime recently joined the cmo he was given key portfolios in cmo along with principal secretary general administration departmentpoliticalpraveen prakash is alleged to have been handling many crucial files without routing them to the chief secretary after waiting for several days the chief secretary has finally cracked the whip and sent a notice to praveen prakash seeking his explanation on several counts in one of the instances mentioned in the memo praveen prakash had circulated a file related to ysr lifetime achievement award to chief secretary for placement before the council of ministers however the cs had directed praveen to take concurrence of finance department in order to place the file before the cabinet surprisingly praveen prakash allegedly placed the file before the cabinet on his own without securing clearance either from finance department or the cs as per the business rules chief secretary is the secretary to the cabinet and no official is empowered to route any proposal directly to the cabinetin another case law department has obtained orders in circulation to set up grama nyayalayas and routed the file to praveen prakash for placing it before the cabinet meeting praveen prakash had failed to put up the file before the cabinet which met twice on october 16 and october 30 he did not respond to law secretarys requests to place the file before the cabinet keeping in view the hc directive said the memo it further said that the official is not competent to keep the file with him without placing before the cabinet despite clearance by the chief minister the principal secretary should bring to the notice of the chief secretary even if he gets some oral instructions from the cmoin accordance to rule 13 4 ap business rules all cases where the matter is to be brought up at the cabinet meeting the secretary of the department concerned shall ready the memorandum and circulate it to the ministers concerned through the chief secretary in gross violation of these rules praveen prakash has exhibited grave misconduct and misbehaviour said the memo it said that praveen prakash had failed to observe the business rules and also there is wilful insubordination or disobedience of orders of superior authority it comes under the misconduct and violation of all india service ais rules 1968the senior official was asked to submit his explanation in a week