29 October 2026
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Jharkhand: Heavy Shortage of IPS Officers; 22 Posts Completely Vacant

There are 26 such important posts of IPS officers in the state, which are running in additional charge.
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Jharkhand Police is facing acute shortage of IPS officers. There are 26 such important posts of IPS officers in the state, which are running in additional charge. Similarly, there are 22 such posts, which are completely lying vacant. The lack of force has a direct bearing on the performance of administrative tasks. Due to delay in supervision, the number of pending cases is increasing.

The sanctioned post of IPS officers in Jharkhand is 149, in which eight new posts have been added recently. That is, there are a total of 104 IPS officers in the Jharkhand cadre against the total 157 posts created in the state. Of these 104 IPS officers, 19 are on central deputation. Three IPS officers are undergoing training at the National Police Academy, Hyderabad. That is, at present only 82 IPS officers are working.

Three other IPS officers are also set to go on central deputation. In this way only 79 IPS officers will be left in the state after a few days. Among them, there are many officers who are new, who have been posted as Sub-Divisional Police Officer and DSP.

SN Pradhan (DG, NCB), Ajay Bhatnagar (Joint Director CBI), MS Bhatia (IG Administration CRPF), Sampat Meena (Joint Director CBI), Naveen Kumar Singh (Senior Analyst, NTRO), Baljit Singh (ED Security, ONGC) Ashish Batra (IG, NIA),

Manoj Kaushik (Additional Director, Finance Monitoring), Saket Kumar Singh (IG CRPF), Kuldeep Dwivedi (DIG ITBP), Abhishek (Additional Deputy Director IB), Anoop T. Mathew (SP, CBI Mumbai), Kranti Kumar Gadideshi (DIG BPR&D) Hyderabad),

Michael Raj S (SP, CBI Chennai), Rakesh Bansal (Director, Cabinet Secretary, New Delhi), P. Murugan (SP, CBI, Mumbai), Jaya Rai (SP, NIA), Akhilesh V. Warrier, Harish Chauhan (Assistant Director) , LBSNAA Mysore).

Anish Gupta, Priyanka Meena and Prashant Anand have got the green signal to go on central deputation.

Posts of IPS Officers with Additional Charge:

  • Neeraj Sinha DGP DG, ACB
  • Ajay Kumar Singh CMD Police Housing DG Wireless,
  • Tadasha Mishra Special Secretary Home ADG, ZAP,
  • Amol Vinukant Homkar IG Campaign IG STF,
  • Prabhat Kumar IG Provision IG Special Branch & ZAP,
  • Pankaj Kamboj IG Ranchi IG ACB,
  • Akhilesh Jha IG HR IG Headquarters,
  • Sunil Bhaskar DIG CID DIG ZAP,
  • Anuranjan Kispotta SP Sahebganj Commandant ZAP-9,
  • priyadarshi alok commandant zap three srp dhanbad,
  • Deepak Kumar Singha SP Jamtara Commandant IRB-1,
  • Rakesh Ranjan SP Chatra Commandant IRB-3,
  • Anjani Anjan SP Latehar Commandant IRB-4,
  • YS Ramesh SP Godda Commandant IRB-8,
  • Amit Renu SP Giridih Commandant IRB-9,\
  • Nidhi Dwivedi Commandant ZAP-8 Commandant IRB-10,
  • Amber Lakra SP Dumka Commandant SIRB-1,
  • Ashutosh Shekhar SP Peg, Commandant, SIRB-2,
  • Kishor Kaushal SP JAPTC Padma SP ACB,
  • Chandan Kumar Jha SP Bokaro Commandant SISF,

The Vacant posts are:

DG Home Defense Corps, ADG Rail, ADG Modernization, ADG Special Branch, IG Rail, DIG, SIB, IG Organized Crime, IG CID, Director Jharkhand Police Academy, DIG Jungle Warfare School, DIG Wireless, DIG Home Defense Corps, DIG Ranchi, SP Traffic Ranchi, SP Home Defense Corps, SP SIB, Principal TTS.


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