State government promoted 20 officers of Indian Police Services cadre to Deputy Inspector General (DIG) rank through Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) meeting here on Friday.
A home department communiqué said that chief minister rewarded police officers on occasion of Independence Day by promoting them to DIG rank. The release said that during DPC meeting, principal secretary (home) AK Gupta said to have taken cases of 25 IPS officers of 2000 batch, 1 of 1991 batch and 2 of 1998 batch in the DPC meeting.
The officers who were promoted to DIG rank after the meeting included Om Prakash Sagar, Prashant Kumar (II), Neelabja Chowdhary, lakshmi Singh, Jitendra Pratap Singh, GP Kanujiya, Vinod Kumar Dohre, Krishna Mohan, Ram Swaroop, DK Rai, Gulab Singh, Mahesh Kumar Mishra, lakshmi Narain, Rakesh Pradhan, Udai Pratap, Sanjay Kakkar, Suresh Chandra Pandey, Ashok Kumar Tandon, DP Srivastava and Madan Gopal Singh.