The Uttar Pradesh government on the eve of the New Year promoted 28 officers of the Indian Police Service (IPS) cadre.
According to an official communiqué released here on Friday evening, orders have been issued for promotion of additional director general of police (ADG) to director general (DG) rank, inspector general of police (IG) to additional director general of police (ADG), deputy inspector general of police (DIG) to inspector general of police (IG), superintendents of police (SP) to deputy inspector general of police (DIG) and superintendents of police on selection grade pay scale.
Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi disclosed that Additional Director General of Police Avinash Chandra has been promoted to Director General of Police rank and four Inspectors General of Police -- Naveen Arora, Mohit Agarwal, Gajendra Kumar Goswami and Bhajani Ram Meena -- have been made Additional Director General of Police.
Apart from this, three DIGs -- Dr Preetinder Singh, Luv Kumar and Chandra Prakash-II -- have been promoted to IG rank.
The additional chief secretary also informed that seven Superintendents of Police namely Bharti Singh, Vipin Kumar Mishra, Madhav Prasad Verma (Senior), Sabharaj, Swami Prasad, Soumitra Yadav and Ramesh have been promoted to the post of Selection Grade/Deputy Inspector General of Police rank respectively.
He also said that 13 Superintendents of Police -- Sarvshree Sureshrao Anand Kulkarni, Amit Verma, N. Kolanchi, Sarvesh Kumar Rana, Shripati Mishra, Ajay Kumar Singh, Jugal Kishor, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Balendu Bhushan Singh, Devendra Pratap Narayan Pandey, Sudhir Kumar Singh, Arvind Bhushan Pandey and Rajiv Malhotra – had been promoted to DIG rank.
Awasthi said that 10 Superintendents of Police namely Sarvshree Keshav Kumar Chaudhary, Ajay Kumar Sahni, Pawan Kumar, Anees Ahmed Ansari, Akhilesh Kumar Chaurasia, Shivasimpi Channapa, Dinesh Kumar P, Muniraj, Bablu Kumar and Santosh Kumar Singh had been given the pay scale of selection grade.
He said that separate orders would be issued regarding the posting of all the promoted IPS officers.