Centre Appoints 6 Special Directors
Deccan ChronicleNEW DELHI: In a major reshuffle, the government on Tuesday promoted six IPS officers, working as additional directors in the Intelligence Bureau as special director while six others have been elevated as Special DGs. Under this reshuffle, the 1989-batch IPS officer of Uttarakhand cadre Safi Ahsan Rizvi and five other officers have been promoted as Special Directors in the IB from the post of Additional Directors. According to the notification, the five other officers posted in IB are 1989 batch IPS officers Rahul Rashgotra and Vivek Srivastava as well as 1990 batch officers TV Ravichandran, Rajiv Ranjan Verma, and Harinath Mishra as additional director as special directors on “in situ” basis by temporarily upgrading the post of additional director held by them from the date of their assumption of the charge of the post or until further orders whichever is earlier. Similarly, a 1989-batch IPS officer from Uttar Pradesh cadre, PV Ramasashtry, and his one batch junior YB Khurania of Odisha cadre have been promoted as Special Director General against the existing vacancies from the date of assumption of charge of the post or until further orders, whichever is earlier. 1990-batch IPS officers Daljit Singh Chaudhary, and SS Chaturvedi have been promoted to the post of Special Director General in the CRPF against vacancies from the date of assumption of charge of the post or until further orders, whichever is earlier.