14-07-2025
Punjab gets eight new DGPs: Promotion includes two women officers; total DGP-rank officers in state now 20
The Punjab government has promoted eight Indian Police Service (IPS) officers of the 1994 batch to the rank of Director General of Police (DGP).
The list includes two women officers, Neerja Vohra and Anita Punj. Notably, Punj has been promoted alongside her husband, Praveen Kumar Sinha, marking a rare instance of a couple both holding the DGP rank in the state police.
The other officers elevated to the top police rank are Naresh Kumar, Ram Singh, Sudhanshu Srivastava, V. Chandrashekhar, and Amardeep Singh Rai. All of them were serving at the Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) level prior to this promotion.
With these elevations, the total number of DGP-rank officers in Punjab has risen to 20.
As per the provision and notification of the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Government of India, Punjab has two sanctioned posts of DGP. The notification, issued in 2010 by the Centre under the All India Services Act, 1951 (LXI of 1951), read with sub-rules (1) and (2) of rule 4 of the Indian Police Service (Cadre) Rules, 1954, was framed in consultation with the Government of Punjab. It specifies that the state can have one DGP as the head of the police force and one DGP for home guards and civil defence.
Under existing rules and DoPT guidelines, IPS officers are eligible for promotion to the ranks of Inspector General (IG), ADGP, and DGP upon completing 18, 25, and 30 years of service respectively.
