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The journey of an IPS officer’s dream starts from the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Management, where his colleagues turn into mates. But after sharing nearly 30 years of relationship, there is a possibility that one day your co-worker will become your boss, and that too a few months before you hang up your boots. As former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri once said: “I am not as simple as I seem”. This service is the same.
At present, the service has encountered some human resource problems. In the past year, many appointments have ended up undermining the relationship between colleagues. Although there is no legal issue, it is changing old practices. Pensioners and penitentiary employees are not positive about this upward trend.
Latest examples of these designations
In the latest order issued last week, IPS Officer Nitin Agrawal from 1989 has been assigned the task of Director General of Border Security Force. While his group mate PV Rama Sastry was also in the running and a strong competitor, as he is already serving in the BSF as an SDG, he will now have to take orders from his group mate.
SL Thaosen’s story is more interesting and has many twists and turns. By now the Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force, IPS Officer Class of 1988, Thawsen worked under his group mate for nearly 10 months before moving to Sashastra Seema Pal as Director General.
Pankaj Singh, who is now Deputy National Security Adviser, was the General Manager of Thaosen and also from the Class of 1988. Before he was selected for the position of General Manager, Singh was working at Banque Saudi Fransi as SDG just like Thaosen. The story turned 180 degrees and when Singh retired he handed the ceremonial baton to fellow group Thaosen who was DG BSF extra in charge.
Another IPS employee in 1988, UC Sarangi, also worked under Singh at BSF. In October last year, Thausen was appointed to the post of DG CRPF, which is the largest paramilitary force. Rashmi Shukla of the Maharashtrian cadre also faced the same thing that Thaosen had faced in the BSF forces, Class of 1988. She worked under colleague Thaosen for nearly five months and, in March, was appointed DG SSB.
The matter is not limited to one force
The problem is not confined to the paramilitaries but is also present in the Intelligence Bureau and the Delhi Police, along with the state police. The IB’s final appointment, a four-star officer, followed a rare flurry of transfers before an IPS officer was appointed in 1988.
The manner in which Tappan Kumar Deka was appointed Director of Bachelors by the government was rare. Deka and three other officers of the 1988 group were transferred from the IB and one of his colleagues in the group, Anish Dayal Singh, worked under him for a few months before moving to the Indo-Tibetan Border Police as Director General. More importantly, two Deka elders were also transferred from the IB before he was given the four-star position, which is also considered to be the boss of the entire police family.
The HR problem also recently surfaced in Delhi Police, when Sanjay Arora was asked to join as Commissioner. Sundari Nanda, the Special Secretary (Internal Security) in the Home Ministry, had to work under her co-worker for more than four months before heading to a key position in the ministry. Nanda was also the frontrunner for the post of commissioner, but the central government decided to choose someone from outside the Utah cadre.
In fact, as per another recent order issued last week, the batch 1996 IPS officer Anil Shukla – who has been appointed as the Director General of Police in Mizoram – will be giving orders to his fellow group member Ajay Chowdhury.
What Veterans Say
when News 18 They contacted former Home Ministers and officers at the Director-General level for their opinions, none of whom said anything on record but all claimed that such appointments not only affected the culture of the fellows in the batch but also turned them into rivals. Some of them also raised the issue of training.
“There was a practice that the Central Forces would get a senior officer where he had to command other IPS officers. Take the latest case of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), an IPS officer from the class of 1986, Kuldip Singh, headed the force but there was no one Another of that batch at that time in force. I don’t remember but I have never seen such an amount of appointments affecting the culture of colleagues and making them competitive. This would weaken the bureaucratic structure, but at the end of the day, the government has the right to decide,” he said. An officer who served with the rank of general manager, he worked under the direction of his colleague.
Similarly, another retired ITBP general manager said, “We don’t have this in our training where officers may one day have to take orders from the group mates they trained with. It also spreads bitterness among the officers, and the training will create friction as everyone worked together and fought.” Similar experiences.Although there may be batch seniority, this is also neglected in some appointments, said the official, who asked not to be identified.
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