The Appointments Committee of the Union Cabinet has approved the empanelment of Punjab DGP Dinkar Gupta as Director General/DGE, an official spokesperson said on Saturday.
According to the Spokesperson, Gupta is one of the 11 officers from the 1987 batch of the IPS, which originally had over a 100 IPS officers, all over the country to be empaneled by GOI to hold DGP level as well as DGP Equivalent level posts in Centre and the only IPS officer from north India (Punjab, Haryana, HP, J&K, UP, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan) to be so empaneled.
The only other serving IPS officer of Punjab cadre empaneled as DGP to hold DGP level posts at the Centre by GoI is Samant Goel, present R&AW Chief.
