Srinagar, July 15: Union Public Services Commission (UPSC) is likely to complete the process for induction of 32 Jammu and Kashmir Police Services (JKPS) officers into the Indian Police Services (IPS) soon.
According to reliable sources, a crucial meeting for the induction of 32 Jammu and Kashmir Police Services (JKPS) officers into the Indian Police Service (IPS) will be held by the Union Public Services Commission (UPSC) in Srinagar by the end of this month now that the Jammu and Kashmir administration and the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) have cleared the majority of the major obstacles.
Representatives from the UPSC, MHA, Chief Secretary Dr Arun Kumar Mehta, Home Secretary R.K. Goyal, Director General of Police Dilbag Singh, and Principal Secretary-level officers from the UT Government would be present at the meeting.
The Jammu and Kashmir government has been informed by the UPSC that the meeting would take place before the end of this month.
32 JKPS officers will be inducted into the IPS precisely two years from the last inductions, which occurred on July 30, 2021, and included 13 active JKPS officers and 14 retired JKPS officers.
“The procedure takes a while. Legal obstacles, seniority concerns, and other issues have to be resolved. After then, a number of objections were made, first by the UT Home Department, then by the Ministry of Home Affairs, and last by the UPSC,” according to the sources, who added that all inquiries had been successfully addressed and that the way had now been cleared for inductions.
However, sources claimed that because J&K became a Union Territory on August 5, 2019, the Union Home Ministry has already combined the former Jammu and Kashmir cadre into AGMUT, meaning that the JKPS officers who would be recruited into the IPS will receive the AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram Union Territories) cadre.
In order to ensure that JKPS personnel are promptly admitted into the IPS, like other States and Union Territories, and not after 10 years as was the case in the past, the government has now recommended making it a regular feature every year.
Along with helping the JKPS officers, the IPS officers’ entry will aid the Jammu and Kashmir government in addressing a DIG officer shortfall in the Union Territory. According to reports, the inclusion of JKPS officers into the IPS would unquestionably end the deficit.
