DGP Selection: Odisha cadre IPS officers biodata sought for DGP selection | Bhubaneswar News
Bhubaneswar: The state govt has sought bio-data of three senior Odisha cadre IPS officers — Y B Khurania, A K Ray and S M Narvane — for selection of Odisha’s director general of police (DGP).
Speculation is rife about the govt appointing Khurania, a 1990-batch officer, as the next head of police force after the Centre repatriated him to the state from central deputation last week cutting short his job as special DG BSF in New Delhi.
Khurania in the past has served as SP of Nayagarh, Jajpur, Rourkela, Mayurbhanj and Ganjam districts, DIG of southern and northern ranges and commissioner of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.
Ray of the 1988 batch, is currently director, printing, stationary and publication while S M Narvane is officer on special duty in the department of home.
Sources said the bio data of these three officers along with names of some more officers, who had already given their details earlier, will be placed before the empanelment committee for selection of the DGP of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).
They include incumbent in-charge DGP Arun Sarangi and DG Fire Services Sudhanshu Sarangi of 1990 batch.
As per the guidelines, the state govt is supposed to send a list of at least six IPS officers who have served for at least 30 years. Before the retirement of Sunil Bansal as DGP on Dec 31, the govt had already sent a panel of names. However,UPSC had sought certain clarifications pending which the empanelment committee did not meet. As a stop-gap arrangement, the govt had appointed Arun Sarangi as the in-charge DGP.
The UPSC will shortlist three names from the panel of names and send back to the state giving it the choice to pick one of the three officers for the top police post.
All eyes are on chief minister Mohan Majhi as to whom he would pick as his first state police chief even as Khurania remains the top contender. When Khurania was Bhubaneswar-Cuttack police commissioner, the commissionerate police had arrested dreaded gangsters Sushant Dhal Samanta and his brother Sushil, as ‘D-brothers’ in January 2016, then seen as a big onslaught on organized crime networks.
Speculation is rife about the govt appointing Khurania, a 1990-batch officer, as the next head of police force after the Centre repatriated him to the state from central deputation last week cutting short his job as special DG BSF in New Delhi.
Khurania in the past has served as SP of Nayagarh, Jajpur, Rourkela, Mayurbhanj and Ganjam districts, DIG of southern and northern ranges and commissioner of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.
Ray of the 1988 batch, is currently director, printing, stationary and publication while S M Narvane is officer on special duty in the department of home.
Sources said the bio data of these three officers along with names of some more officers, who had already given their details earlier, will be placed before the empanelment committee for selection of the DGP of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).
They include incumbent in-charge DGP Arun Sarangi and DG Fire Services Sudhanshu Sarangi of 1990 batch.
As per the guidelines, the state govt is supposed to send a list of at least six IPS officers who have served for at least 30 years. Before the retirement of Sunil Bansal as DGP on Dec 31, the govt had already sent a panel of names. However,UPSC had sought certain clarifications pending which the empanelment committee did not meet. As a stop-gap arrangement, the govt had appointed Arun Sarangi as the in-charge DGP.
The UPSC will shortlist three names from the panel of names and send back to the state giving it the choice to pick one of the three officers for the top police post.
All eyes are on chief minister Mohan Majhi as to whom he would pick as his first state police chief even as Khurania remains the top contender. When Khurania was Bhubaneswar-Cuttack police commissioner, the commissionerate police had arrested dreaded gangsters Sushant Dhal Samanta and his brother Sushil, as ‘D-brothers’ in January 2016, then seen as a big onslaught on organized crime networks.
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