Srinagar/June,7: Accepting the Cabinet Sub Committee (CSC) recommendations, Jammu and Kashmir Cabinet today approved to provide monetary benefits to Kashmir Police Service (KPS) officers without ranks.
The CSC in its report to Home Department after meeting on June 5 here, had recommended that senior police officers awaiting promotions to the rank of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) should be provided monetary benefits, without ranks.
The cabinet which met under chairpersonship of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti here approved the recommendations.
Following opposition by BJP, a coalition partner in the PDP-led Government, to the proposal of reserving two Inspector Generals (IG) and four DIG posts for KPS officers, a CSC was constituted on December 15, 2016. However, the CSC agreed to post senior KPS officers in the pay and grade of DIGs and IGs but without the rank.
While an officer of Kashmir Administrative Service (KAS) in civil administration can reach up to the level of administrative secretaries without their induction into the IAS. But same is not the case with KPS officer as it has not been classified as a state cadre service with the result there is stagnation in promotion among middle-rung police officers.
Because of this the KPS officers are not eligible for promotion beyond the level of Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) with the result about 50 IPS cadre posts to be filled by departmental promotees are lying vacant for the past 15 years in the absence of promotion of any KPS officer from the rank of SSP to the DIG.
