JAMMU, July 21: The Jammu and Kashmir Government and the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) today approved the induction of 31 JKPS officers, including one serving and one retired, into the Indian Police Services (IPS), making history in the process. Additionally, two posts were set aside for the JKPS officers, including one serving and one retired, who have been subject to investigations and court cases.In one go, 31 JKPS officers have joined the IPS for the first time in Jammu and Kashmir’s history.
Inductions were approved at a 3 PM joint meeting of the UPSC, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), and the Jammu and Kashmir Government in New Delhi. It lasted for more than an hour.
Representatives of the MHA, Chief Secretary Dr. Arun Kumar Mehta, Additional Chief Secretary (Home), RK Goyal, and Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh were present in addition to the UPSC Member who presided over the meeting.32 JKPS officers from the 1999 cohort were supposed to be admitted into the IPS, according to the initial proposal. 31 JKPS officials were ultimately inducted into IPS after the UPSC decided to reserve one post for RK Bhat, SSP, who had lost out on induction in the last meeting held in July 2021 because he is under investigation in a case.They are Maqsood-ul-Zaman, Mubassir Latifi Ameer, Shiv Kumar Sharma, Suhail Munawar Mir, Rashmi Wazir, Rajeshwar Singh, Sandeep Wazir, Anita Sharma, Sameer Rekhi, Jatinder Singh Johar, Anil Kumar Magotra, Swaran Singh Kotwal, Zahid Naseem Manhas, Dr. Koshal Kumar, Ashok Kumar BadwalAnil Kumar Magotra and Parshotam Kumar Sharma, two of them, have retired from the military, and the other two have chosen not to go through the recruitment process.
A post from the previous quota has also been set aside for Manohar Singh, who like RK Bhat has retired from the military.Officials told that induction of RK Bhat and Manohar Singh will depend on getting clean chit from the courts or inquiries they are facing. If they get clean chit, they will get IPS. Both of them were eligible for inductions into IPS in July 2021 also when last meeting of the UPSC was held but then too they couldn’t make it because of the pending cases or inquiries.All 44 positions for JKPS officers seeking induction into the IPS have been filled as of today’s inductions. Four vacancies will become available soon, though, as two JKPS officers who were admitted into IPS have retired and two more have chosen to resign. Additionally, the upcoming cadre review will result in the creation of more positions for the entrance of JKPS officers into the IPS, raising the status of more UT officers.The officials stated that “all officers inducted into the IPS today belonged to the 1999 batch,” adding that there are still 20 to 25 officers from same batch who are still up for induction.
They said that the Union Ministry of Home Affairs will decide which year new IPS officers will be inducted based on the number of openings for Jammu and Kashmir in the AGMUT cadre on a year-by-year basis.
The officials stated that “nearly half a dozen inducted officers will become eligible for promotion as DIGs,” adding that the inductions will result in the posting of local officers to higher positions and provide them with more opportunities for promotion.The inductions of today occurred exactly two years later. The UPSC approved the induction of 14 active-duty and 12 retired officers into the IPS in July 2021. Later, retired officer posts were considered vacant and included in the overall number of vacancies.
Previously, the Manmohan Singh-led UPA Government had established a unique provision for the induction of JKAS and JKPS officers into the IAS and IPS with a 50:50 ratio, meaning that out of all open positions, J&K received 50% of direct recruitment from the IAS and IPS and 50% through promotions of JKAS and JKPS. With the new administration in place, the “Mantra” of “One Nation, One Provision” was put into practise and the ratio was returned to 67:33, meaning that 67 percent of officers will be direct recruits and 33 percent through promotion quotas, as was the situation in the remaining States and Union Territories. The promotional prospectus for JKAS and JKPS officers was drastically decreased as a result.
