1994 batch IPS officer posted as IG CID (Vigilance) Rameshwar Singh Thakur will be the new chairman of Himachal Pradesh Public Service Commission. Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar will administer the oath to him at 2 pm at Raj Bhavan. This was done, a week after the state government cancelled the previous appointee Rachna Gupta’s oath ceremony at the eleventh hour without any clarification.
Born in a poor family at village Lohali in Shimla in 1964, Rameshwar Singh Thakur belongs to Jubbarhatti (Shimla Rural Assembly Constituency) of Shimla. He was raised by his maternal aunt after his mother died when he was only two years of age. He has served in the Prime Minister’s Special Security Force (SPG) for 9 years. He was honored with America’s prestigious honor Clark R. In addition to Bevin Law Enforcement, has been awarded the President’s Police Medal in the year 2016.
Thakur was in MA (Economics) 1st year at Himachal Pradesh University (HPU), Shimla when he was selected to the short service commission (SSC) in Indian Army and joined OTA in 1985 where he secured 7th rank.
He retired from the Indian Army with the rank of Captain before serving in the police. He is currently serving as IG Intelligence. Along with the Public Service Commission, there will also be an oath-taking ceremony of the members, in which Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur and other dignitaries will be present.
It is worth mentioning that earlier on August 18, the chairman appointed for the service commission, Dr. Rachna Gupta and 3 members Rakesh Sharma, Col Rajesh Kumar Sharma and Prof. Om Prakash Sharma’s swearing-in ceremony was postponed. Appointed to the post of President Dr. Rachna Gupta had written a letter at that time expressing her inability to handle the post of president.
