Juniors getting higher pay then seniors: Haryana finance dept asks Home to clarify on IPS promotions
Hindustan TimesThe Haryana finance department has asked the home department to clarify as to how IPS officers of the 1997 batch were promoted when the promotion of 1996 batch was still under consideration due to review of cadre strength and deliberations on creation of cadre and ex-cadre posts. The state government had in February this year promoted two 1997-batch IPS officers, Sanjay Kumar and Amitabh Dhillon to the rank of additional director general of police and in April ordered refixation of their pay. Following objections by 1996-batch officers, the home department asked the director general of police to withhold the order of pay fixation of 1997-batch IPS officers till the finance department grants concurrence regarding stepping up the pay of 1996-batch officers as per their promotion order of May 2022. A 1996-batch IPS officer, M Ravi Kiran wrote to the DGP stating since then the pay of 1996-batch officers had not been yet fixed despite their promotion in May 2022, the fixation of pay of 1997-batch IPS officers who were promoted recently was contrary to directions issued by finance department.