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Punjab gets 7 new DGPs, count now all-time high
The Punjab government on Monday promoted seven additional director generals of police (ADGPs) to the rank of director generals of police taking the count to 13, an all-time high in the state.
The Punjab government on Monday promoted seven additional director generals of police (ADGPs) to the rank of director generals of police (DGPs) taking the count to 13, an all-time high in the state.
Punjab had 12 DGPs in 2017.
According to the home department order, seven 1993-batch IPS officers promoted on Monday include ADGP community affairs division (CAD) and women affairs Gurpreet Deo, chief director vigilance bureau Varinder Kumar, ADGP human resource development Ishwar Singh, ADGP PSPCL Jitendra Kumar Jain, ADGP policy and rules Satish Kumar Asthana, ADGP railways Shashi Prabha Dwivedi and ADGP internal security RN Dhoke.
ADGP law and order Arpit Shukla is the only 1993-batch IPS officer whose elevation has been kept pending due to a case in the Punjab and Haryana high court.
As per gradation list of IPS officers available on the Punjab Police website, 10 IPS officers are already serving in the rank of DGP out of which four — Samant Goyal (RAW chief), Dinkar Gupta (NIA chief), Parag Jain (additional secretary), Harpreet Sidhu, are serving on central deputation.
VK Bhawra (chairman, Punjab Police Housing Corporation), Prabodh Kumar (DGP human rights), Sanjeev Kalra (special dgp home guards), Sharad Satya Chauhan (MD Punjab Police Housing Corporation), Gaurav Yadav (acting DGP) and Kuldeep Singh (special DGP STF against drugs) are serving in the state.
According to a home department official, IPS officers have a vertical tenure-based promotion system in accordance with IPS cadre rules. Cadre management, however, varies from state to state. Anyone who has served 30, 25 and 18 years in service is eligible to become a DGP, ADGP and IG, respectively.
Even as Punjab has two sanctioned cadre posts of DGPs, experts say lately it has become a trend in all states that any IPS officer who completes 30 years of service is promoted as a DGP. The officer also gets pay, perks and other facilities of the rank of a DGP.
“In November last year, state like UP had 78 DGPs. Neighbouring Haryana also promotes officers to the rank of DGP when they complete 30 years of service,” said a senior Punjab Police functionary who claimed that the reason behind top heavy in Punjab Police was more allotment of officials to state and IPS cadre during terrorism days in early to mid 90s.
At present, Punjab has 14 ADGPs after these promotions and six more officers of the rank of IGs are set to become ADGPs in coming days.
These officials include 1997-batch IPS officer PK Rai (central deputation), RK Jaiswal, Naunihal Singh, Arunpal Singh, Gurinder Dhillon, Mohnish Chawla and Satinderpal Singh Parmar. Five DIGs are also set to become IGs in the coming days.
