By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha General Administration and Public Grievances Department has issued notifications on Friday regarding promotion of several IPS Officers.
IPS officer of 1999 batch, Ghanashyam Upadhyay, who is now on central deputation, promoted to ADG rank with effect from January 1, 2024 and Upadhyay is given Pro-forma Promotion.
While 2006 batch IPS Officer Anup Kumar Sahoo now DIG Intelligence promoted to IGP Rank, Amrita Dash, Anirudh Kumar Singh, Anoop Krishna and Sudha Singh were given Pro-froma Promotion as they are on central posting.
The new DIGs are IPS Officers of 2010 batch which include Mitrabhanu Mahapatra, Sarah Sharma, Kanwar Vishal Singh, Ashis Kumar Singh, Parul Gupta and K Siva Subramani. At present Ashis Kumar, Parul Gupta and K Siva Subraman are on Central deputation, so they are given Pro-forma Promotion.
Four other Odisha cadre IPS officers of 2015 batch Rahul Jain, Sarvana Vivek M, Kusalkar Nitin Dagdu and Pratyush Diwaker were promoted to Level-12 Pay Scale and three 2011 batch IPS officers Pinak Mishra, Banoth Jugal Kishore Kumar, Battula Gangadhar have been given promotion to Level 13 of Pay Matrix.