Centre Empanels 30 Senior IPS Officers To ADG-Level Posts

As per an order issued by the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT), “The ACC has approved the empanelment of 30 IPS officers.”  

As per the order, the empanelment includes 28 IPS officers from the 1998 batch and two IPS officers from the 1994 batch, making them eligible for Central deputation in senior leadership positions across Ministries, Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs), and Union government institutions.

The officers include Mahesh Chandra Laddha (Andhra Pradesh), Malothu Ramulu Naik (Bihar), Ratn Sanjay Katiyar (Bihar), Amit Kumar, Patel Piyush Purusottam Das (Gujarat), Rajiv Ranjan Bhagat (Gujarat), Dinesh Kumar Yadav (Himachal Pradesh), and Vikas Kumar Arora (Haryana).

Officers From Kerala Cadre

From the Kerala cadre, the officers include Ashok Yadav, Dinendra Kashyap, H. Venkatesh, and Gopesh Aggarwal, who has been empanelled to hold an Additional Director General-equivalent post.

The other officers include Pankaj Kumar Thakur (Karnataka), Soumendu Mukherjee (Karnataka), Rajesh Kumar (Maharashtra), Santosh Rastogi (Maharashtra), Anshuman Yadav (Madhya Pradesh), Sajid Farid Shapoo (Madhya Pradesh), S. Dev Dutta Singh (Odisha), Nilabh Kishore (Punjab), Vikram Singh Mann (Telangana), Avi Prakash (Tamil Nadu), Vidya Jayant Kulkarni (Tamil Nadu), Arvinder Singh (Tripura), Rajesh Shrihari Kamble (Tripura), Ajay Prakash Anshuman (Uttarakhand), and Piyush Mordia (Uttar Pradesh).

ADG-Equivalent Posts

Vineet Agarwal (Maharashtra, 1994 batch), Sanjay Mathur (Tamil Nadu, 1994 batch), and Narendra Singh Bundela (AGMUT, 1998 batch) have also been empanelled for ADG-equivalent posts. 

Empanelment by the ACC is a necessary step before senior IPS officers can be brought on Central deputation to hold posts of ADG or equivalent rank. The Union government’s decision comes at a time when several Central organisations are witnessing leadership transitions and senior-level restructuring, leading to vacancies.