IPS promotions to take more time: Centre asks Haryana to send revised proposal for cadre strength review

An official privy to the developments said, “The state wants an increase in the cadre posts from current 79 to nearly 90, while proposing an increase in the cadre posts of DGPs from current two to three, ADGPs from current six to eight, IGPs from current 16 to 18, DIGs from 15 to 18, and SPs to 44.

If the strength of cadre increases, then it further leads to increase in the number of ex-cadre posts as the ex-cadre posts are created in proportion to the cadre posts. Ex-cadre posts are temporary posts of the same rank as cadre posts and created by the state government which open doors for promotions of more IPS officers.”

If the Centre agrees to the state’s proposal, even if partially, then it may open more avenues for promotions for those officers who have been in the queue for long. The last review of the Haryana IPS cadre was notified by the Central government on February 2, 2017.

As per rule 4 (2) of IPS (cadre) Rules 1954, as amended in 1995, review of the strength and composition of IPS cadres is required to be held ordinarily at an interval of five years. Hence, the review of strength and composition of Haryana cadre of IPS was due in 2022. As 20 months have already passed after the due date for the same, the IPS officers are eagerly waiting for the latest round of cadre strength review.

On its part, the MHA, from February 2022 to September 2022, wrote seven letters to the Haryana government seeking a proposal aimed at reviewing the IPS officers’ cadre strength and composition. On August 11 this year, the state government sent a proposal to the MHA for review of the cadre strength. However, two weeks later, the MHA asked the state to send a revised proposal “duly completed in all respects in the prescribed proforma proposal”.