New Delhi (19.10.2023): Officers with a minimum of five years’ service will now be eligible for induction in R&AW, IB, NIA and the CBI. Earlier, officers with a minimum of five years’ service were eligible for induction in other agencies except the CBI. Updated policy will pave the way for SP rank officers to be inducted in CBI.
Massive vacancies in the CBI are affecting speedy investigations as till October 10, at the SP level, the CBI had a vacancy of 42 IPS officers against 73 sanctioned posts. The vacancy is highest among all 17 organisations, followed by 32 in IB. SP-level officer in any investigation is of utmost importance as they supervise and directly investigate the cases. Since the CBI deals only with high-profile cases, the vacancy of IPS officers at SP level has been hampering working of the anti-corruption agency for a long time.
Similarly, in the IB, ranks of IG, ADG and DG have been added to fulfil hardcore strength which was earlier restricted to SP and DIG. The strength of ‘hardcore’ officers in the IB must not exceed 50 per cent of the posts in the rank of SP, DIG, IG, ADG, Special DG and DG taken together to be filled by IPS officers.
The updated policy also reflects changes in empanelment of senior IPS officers. Every state cadre of the IPS provides for a central deputation quota, which in turn, requires additional recruitment to be made to the service to provide for trained and experienced members to serve on posts in the central government.
Accordingly, utilisation of the central deputation quota of different state cadres is an important factor governing the scale at which officers are borrowed from the various state cadres of the service.
However, no post so filled by a member of IPS on deputation can be deemed to be a cadre post of the parent state. Similarly, no individual member of the IPS can claim any right to appointment to a post under the Government of India.
