In Madhya Pradesh, IPS officers of 1992 and 1993 batch have not yet got a chance for promotion, whereas in other states such officers have become DGP or Special DG. After the retirement of DGP Sudhir Saxena, 1992 batch officer Pankaj Srivastava will be made Special DG.
In some states, IPS officers are becoming DGP or Special DG after completion of 30 years of service, but in Madhya Pradesh, even the officers of 1992 and 1993 batch have not been promoted yet. After the retirement of DGP Sudhir Saxena this month, a special DG will get the opportunity to become DGP. In his place, 1992 batch officer Pankaj Srivastava will be promoted to the post of Special DG in December 2024. Presently he is ADG STF.
Five special DGs will retire in 2025
Five special DGs are retiring by May 2025. In his place, Adarsh Katiyar, Pawan Srivastava, Manish Shankar Sharma, G Akheta Sema and DC Sagar can become special DGs. All of them are officers of 1992 batch, which means they will be able to become Special DG after 32 years of service. There are six IPS officers in the 1992 batch.
Opportunity for IPS officers of 1992 and 1993 batch
In October, 1991 batch officer Yogesh Mudgal was made Special DG. Now the turn of 1992 batch. For this reason, in a hurry, the state government had sent a proposal for DPC to the Union Public Service Commission in October, on which DPC has been done. Now there is no problem in promotion of officers of this batch.
After these, officers of 1993 batch will become DG. The name of ADG Welfare and Accounts Anil Kumar is at the top among them. There are total four officers in this batch. Due to small batches, after the year 2030, such a situation will arise that only ADGs will not be eligible to fill the 12 posts of DG.
MP cadre IPS lags behind in becoming DG
Talking about other states, in some states including Andhra Pradesh, Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, police officers up to 1992 batch have got the opportunity to become DGP or DG, but in Madhya Pradesh many IPS officers have retired before becoming ADG. Have been. The reason for this is that some years the batch is very small and sometimes it is very big.
