Sunday, October 26, 2014

Akhilesh government Transfers over 500 IPS officers

The Asian Age: Lucknow: Sunday, 26 October 2014.
The Akhilesh government has transferred 524 IPS officers in the past nine months. The total cadre strength of IPS officers in UP is 405.
According to information obtained by RTI activist, Dr Nutan Thakur, the government has been happily violating the IPS Cadre Amendment Rules 2014 which fixes the minimum tenure of 2 years for IPS officers. Dr Thakur said as per information received by her under the RTI Act, the government has admitted to having ordered 524 transfers of IPS officers.
“A total of 86 transfer orders have been issued in the past nine months,” he said.