The Cuttack bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) on Monday imposed a stay on the Indian Police Services Limited Competitive Examination (LCE) 2012, which was scheduled on May 20.
The CAT bench gave the direction in response to a batch of petitions filed by state police officers praying to quash the examination, which was introduced by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) this year.
Some DSP-rank police officers of Odisha had filed petitions, alleging that the "limited exam" conducted by UPSC to overcome shortage of IPS officers in the country will affect their careers. The petitioners alleged the exam would block promotion quota of Odisha Police Service (OPS) officers to IPS rank. Many of the DSP rank officers would not be able to appear the exam due to age limit constraints, they said. The petitioners alleged the exam was "arbitrary" and urged CAT to quash it.
Adjudicating the petitions, CAT had issued notice to the Union ministry of home affairs to file its reply to the matter but it did not respond. "CAT had issued notice to the centre government to file its reply but there was no response. The CAT heard the matter in detail and imposed a stay on the exam," said Aditya Das, the petitioners' counsel.
Recruitment to IPS is done through competitive examination from open market conducted by UPSC and promotion of state police service officers. While two-third of the vacancies is filled up through direct recruitment, the remaining is supposed to be filled up through the State Promotion Quota (SPQ). Last year, the Centre, with a view to overcome shortage of IPS officers and paucity of training facilities, decided to introduce a third method of recruitment by holding a 'Limited Competitive Examination (LCE)', in which only assistant commandants of central para-military forces (CPMF), captain and major or equivalent rank officers of defence services and deputy superintendent of police (DSP) of state police service having five years' experience and aged 35 years or less can appear.
"There being no direct recruitment of DSPs (stopped since 1976) in Odisha, there is no scope for recruitment from the state police into IPS through LCE. By the time sub-inspectors in the state reach the rank of DSP, they invariably cross the age of 35, which means they would never be eligible to appear for LCE," a police officer said.
The CAT bench gave the direction in response to a batch of petitions filed by state police officers praying to quash the examination, which was introduced by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) this year.
Some DSP-rank police officers of Odisha had filed petitions, alleging that the "limited exam" conducted by UPSC to overcome shortage of IPS officers in the country will affect their careers. The petitioners alleged the exam would block promotion quota of Odisha Police Service (OPS) officers to IPS rank. Many of the DSP rank officers would not be able to appear the exam due to age limit constraints, they said. The petitioners alleged the exam was "arbitrary" and urged CAT to quash it.
Adjudicating the petitions, CAT had issued notice to the Union ministry of home affairs to file its reply to the matter but it did not respond. "CAT had issued notice to the centre government to file its reply but there was no response. The CAT heard the matter in detail and imposed a stay on the exam," said Aditya Das, the petitioners' counsel.
Recruitment to IPS is done through competitive examination from open market conducted by UPSC and promotion of state police service officers. While two-third of the vacancies is filled up through direct recruitment, the remaining is supposed to be filled up through the State Promotion Quota (SPQ). Last year, the Centre, with a view to overcome shortage of IPS officers and paucity of training facilities, decided to introduce a third method of recruitment by holding a 'Limited Competitive Examination (LCE)', in which only assistant commandants of central para-military forces (CPMF), captain and major or equivalent rank officers of defence services and deputy superintendent of police (DSP) of state police service having five years' experience and aged 35 years or less can appear.
"There being no direct recruitment of DSPs (stopped since 1976) in Odisha, there is no scope for recruitment from the state police into IPS through LCE. By the time sub-inspectors in the state reach the rank of DSP, they invariably cross the age of 35, which means they would never be eligible to appear for LCE," a police officer said.
2 comments:
The petition is misconceived. They will not be able to prove in what manner their promotion prospects are being harmed.
this method of recruitment is very much constitutional as there are many a similar recruitment methods are being used for filling the vacant posts in Group -A services, not compromising the efficiency of the post; even IPS vacancies are being filled by promoting local police officers of state. in addition, this method will bring out well polished, experienced, comparatively young and dedicated than of oldies of state police. moreover, officers of CPMF also to be conferred as IPS, without such exam, as the 50% of higher posts in CPMF are occupied by IPS officers, therefore, is will compensate their places of growing.we must take this move positively and wait for the best lot in 'khakhi'.
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