NEW DELHI: In a major reshuffle, the government on Tuesday promoted six IPS officers, working as additional directors in the Intelligence Bureau as special director while six others have been elevated as Special DGs.
All these officers belong to various cadres of the 1989 and 1990 batches. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) on Monday approved these appointments following the proposals received earlier from the Union home ministry.
Under this reshuffle, the 1989-batch IPS officer of Uttarakhand cadre Safi Ahsan Rizvi and five other officers have been promoted as Special Directors in the IB from the post of Additional Directors.
Mr Rizvi has been posted to the new rank against an existing vacancy from the date of assumption of charge of the post or until further orders, whichever is earlier, a Ministry of Personnel notification reads. The promotion of five other officers in the IB are based on "in situ basis" by temporarily upgrading the posts of Additional Director held by them from the date of assumption of charge of the post or until further orders, whichever is earlier.
According to the notification, the five other officers posted in IB are 1989 batch IPS officers Rahul Rashgotra and Vivek Srivastava as well as 1990 batch officers TV Ravichandran, Rajiv Ranjan Verma, and Harinath Mishra as additional director as special directors on “in situ” basis by temporarily upgrading the post of additional director held by them from the date of their assumption of the charge of the post or until further orders whichever is earlier.
Similarly, a 1989-batch IPS officer from Uttar Pradesh cadre, PV Ramasashtry, and his one batch junior YB Khurania of Odisha cadre have been promoted as Special Director General against the existing vacancies from the date of assumption of charge of the post or until further orders, whichever is earlier. They are presently posted as Additional DGs in the BSF.
1990-batch IPS officers Daljit Singh Chaudhary, and SS Chaturvedi have been promoted to the post of Special Director General in the CRPF against vacancies from the date of assumption of charge of the post or until further orders, whichever is earlier. Currently, they are posted as Additional DG in the CRPF. The ACC has also approved two grants of "in situ" promotion due to the non-availability of sanctioned posts. The officers are Nina Singh from a 1989 batch of the Rajasthan cadre and AM Kulkarni from a 1990 batch of the Maharashtra batch as Special DG in CISF and NIA respectively.
However, Mr Kulkarni has been appointed as Special Director General in the NIA on in situ basis by temporarily upgrading the post held by the officer from the date of assumption of charge of the post up to January 31, 2024, or the date of his superannuation or until further orders, whichever is earlier. He is currently posted as the Additional DG in the NIA.
