Shortage of IPS Officers

Shortage of IPS Officers

Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Home Affairs

10-August-2011 18:27 IST

As on 1.1.2011, the total authorised strength of IPS was 4720 against which 3393 officers were in position, leaving a shortage of 1327 IPS officers.

The State-wise details are as under:

State	Auth. Strength	In Position	Shortage
AP	258	185	73
AGMU	295	166	129
AM	188	124	64
BM	231	156	75
CH	103	74	29
GJ	195	143	52
HY	137	104	33
HP	89	56	33
JK	147	109	38
JH	135	98	37
KTK	205	142	63
KL	163	114	49
MP	291	214	77
MH	302	204	98
MT	156	98	58
NL	60	34	26
OR	188	99	89
PB	172	108	64
RJ	205	163	42
SK	32	29	03
TN	263	203	60
UP	489	335	154
UK	69	55	14
WB	347	230	117
Under Training		150
Total	4720	3393	1477 (1477-150)= 1327

To minimise the shortage of IPS officers, the batch-size of IPS (direct recruitment) was increased from 88 to 103 from CSE, 2005 and 130 from CSE, 2008 and to 150 from CSE, 2009. Besides the above, the Government6 has also finalized a new mode of induction to IPS, i.e. through Limited Competitive Examination to recruit 80 officers annually.  

This was stated by Shri Jitendra Singh, Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs in written reply to a question in the Rajya  Sabha.

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