Induction into IPS File reaches MHA, resentment among JKPS officers, some mull to move CAT

Sumit Sharma. Updated: 5/26/2020 11:18:14 AM Front Page

JAMMU: As many as twenty-eight police officers of Jammu and Kashmir Police Service (JKPS) are all set to be inducted into Indian Police Services (IPS), many of them to be elevated as Deputy Inspector Generals of Police, even as strong resentment has been brewing among the officers who alleged that the final list for induction has been prepared on pick-and-choose basis, and are even mulling to knock the doors of Central Administrative Tribunal.
The file pertaining to this had reached in the office of the Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam, who has forward the same to the Ministry of the Home Affairs (MHA) on Sunday, official sources informed.
“A list of twenty-eight police officers who are eligible for induction into IPS from 2010 to 2013 has been notified by the Jammu and Kashmir Home Department on retrospective basis, and the same has reached the MHA for further necessary action,” they said.
However, many JKPS officers have alleged that the government has selected the officers on pick-and-choose basis, besides questioning the method adopted.
“The move is a hard hit on our career as the same is on the base of pick and choose policy. It is a biased exercise,” one of the JKPS officer told this scribe.
“If UT government prepare induction list on the basis of 67:33 ratio (67 percent direct quota and 33 percent from JKPS officers for IPS induction) as per UT’s rules across India, there would be 44 officers eligible for IPS induction.
“If they opt for 50:50 percent quota as has been the case in the erstwhile State, then the number of inductions would reach at 62,” said another ‘aggrieved’ JKPS officers, on anonymity.
They even criticized successive governments for step motherly treatment to the Jammu and Kashmir Police Officers for not reviewing their cadre and determining posts after 2013.
“We have become eligible for the induction years ago. Many among us are at the verge of retirement and we very well may retire but the long-awaited cadre review, especially for those who had become eligible after 2013 may never happen,” said another officer.
The News Now has reliably learnt that some of the officers intend to knock the door of Central Administrative Tribunal.
The proposal for the induction was mooted after Police Headquarters (PHQ) shot a letter to the UT administration apprising it that the Jammu and Kashmir Police has dearth of Deputy Inspector Generals (DIGs), thus hampering the working of the force.
Pertinently, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti had moved a proposal of JKP cadre review on December 9, 2016. Following differences between PDP and its coalition partner BJP, the state government had on December 15, 2016 constituted a 6-member cabinet sub-committee headed by then Minister for Industries and Commerce Chander Prakash Ganga to examine the proposal regarding review of the strength and composition of the Jammu and Kashmir Police (Gazetted) Service.
Other five members of the sub-committee included the then Minister for Health and Medical Education Bali Bhagat, the then Minister for Forests Choudhary Lal Singh, the then Minister for Finance Haseeb Drabu, the then Minister for CAPD Choudhary Zulfikar Ali and the then Minister for PWD Naeem Akhtar. The committee, however, had failed to submit its report for next one-and-a-half year, before it fell in June 2018.


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