The Punjab Government has promoted 17 IPS officers in the rank of Inspector General of Police (IGP) with retrospective effect.
Among those promoted include nine IPS officers of 1991 batch, while eight are from 1994 batch, said an official spokesperson of the state Home Affairs and Justice Department. The spokesperson said that nine IPS officers of 1991 batch — Rl Bhagat, Ishwer Chander, Jagdish Kumar, Balbir Kumar Bawa, Parampal Singh Sidhu, RP Mittal, Nirmal Singh Dhillon, Sham lal and Kanwaljit Singh Pannu — have been promoted in the rank of IGP with effect from the year 2010. A 1994 batch IPS officers Dr Naresh Kumar, Ram Singh, SS Srivastava, V Neerja and Amardeep Singh Rai have been promoted as IGP from the year 2012.
Other three IPS officers of 1994 batch, Parveen Kumar Sinha, B Chandra Sekhar and Anita Punj, have been granted proforma promotion in the rank of Inspector General of Police with effect from 2012 and 2013.