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Govt makes rule governing apex scales of DG-rank officers flexible

By IndianMandarins- 02 May 2023
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New Delhi (02.05.2023): Allowing the Centre to decide who gets a higher paycheck, the seniority rule governing the pay of the top 11 IPS officers serving as Director Generals (DGs) at the Centre has been made flexible.

The Home Ministry said in a notification that for DGs in nine out of 13 posts in central police organisations and paramilitary forces, apex pay scales in levels 17 or 16 will be decided by the ACC. The apex pay scale is granted to secretaries and DGs from various services. It has two levels. At level 17, an officer gets ₹2.25 lakh per month excluding allowances. Pay at level 16 ranges from ₹ 205,400 to ₹224,400 excluding allowances.

It means the existing pay rules allowed the government to choose 11 senior most IPS officers empanelled as DGs for the apex pay scale in 15 organisations. Two of them, director, CBI and director, IB (Intelligence Bureau) have already been fixed in the apex pay scale. So, only nine more DGs out of the remaining 13 can get the apex pay scale, as decided by the ACC. The seniority clause has been kept flexible. The committee always had the power to give any DG level 17 or 16 in the apex pay scale; the latest notification has formalised it.

The changes were required when Tapan Kumar Deka (IPS: 1988: HP) became IB chief in July 2022. He was not among 11 senior most IPS officers at the time of appointment but by virtue of heading the IB, he became the senior most police officer in the country. On November 30, the government excluded the post of IB chief and CBI director from the seniority rule. There are around 24-25 DGs posted at the Centre.

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