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TN sends UPSC list of officers for DGP selection

By IndianMandarins- 17 Apr 2019
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Since the Model Code of Conduct doesn't bar it, the TN government has initiated a proposal for selection of the incumbent DGP T K Rajendran whose term will end on June 30. Accordingly, the state government has sent to the Union Public Services Commission (UPSC) a list of 12 officers of the Indian Police Service (IPS), who will complete 30 years of service on June 1. Under the rules, the state government is required to send a list of IPS officers three months ahead of the end of the current incumbent’s term.

 

The main stipulation behind listing officers for this purpose is that those having a residual period of service of fewer than six months should not be in the list.

 

In the case of TN, the period of six months is counted, keeping the date of  Rajendran’s last day as DGP (June 30, 2019) as the reference date. As a result, four IPS officers — Sangaram Jangid (IPS:1985:TN) and C K Gandhirajan (IPS:1985:TN), Ashish Bhengra (IPS:1986:TN) and R C Kudawla (IPS:1987:TN) have been excluded.

 

Those who have made it to the list are J. K. Tripathy (1985); M. S. Jaffar Sait, Srilakshmi Prasad, Ashutosh Shukla, Mithilesh Kumar Jha, and N. Tamil Selvan, all belonging to the 1986 batch, and C. Sylendra Babu, Karan Singha, Prateep V. Philip and Vijaya Kumar, all from the 1987, besides Sanjay Arora and Sunil Kumar belonging to the 1988 batch.

 

One interesting point about the two listed 1988 batch IPS officers is that they are yet to be assigned the DGP rank. They have been accommodated in the list, as they fulfill the essential qualification of having put in 30 years of service. It is because of this rule that their batchmate, Sunil Kumar Singh, does not figure in the list, as he joined the service in August 1989. The other 10 officers who are in the list have been given the DGP rank.

 

As soon as the results of Lok Sabha elections are over, a committee of senior officers — two from the UPSC and one each from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and the State government — is likely to meet and shortlist six names, of which Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami will select one. Once selected, the police officer will remain as DGP for two years, regardless of the date of retirement from the service.

 

Last month, the SC clarified that the preparation of panel “should be purely on the basis of merit from officers who have a minimum residual tenure of six months.”

 

This clarification came as former Uttar Pradesh DGP Prakash Singh had contended in a petition that the UPSC was “only considering” police officers with a minimum 2 years’ residual tenure for appointment as DGP, leading to many “competent officers” getting overlooked.

 

Rajendran was made DGP on June 30, 2017, on the day that he was to retire from the service.

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