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| Promotion of 15 IPS officers not on agenda | | Cabinet meeting today | | Bashir Assad
Jammu, Dec 16: State Cabinet is meeting tomorrow morning with Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in chair. Surprisingly the agenda for the meeting was not finalized till late Sunday evening.
Informed sources said the cabinet is likely to accord approval to the left over portion of the Ravi Canal, however, cabinet may not be able to approve the promotions awarded to 15 high ranking IPS officers because the minutes of the DPC meeting have not been signed by the Chief Secretary Madhav Lal as yet.
Sources said though the Home Department has forwarded the draft minutes to the Chief Secretary but the same have not been signed for unknown reasons.
It merits a mention here that 15 police officers including 4 IGPs (SM Sahai, Dilbagh Singh, Sheikh Owais Ahmad and VK Singh) were cleared for promotions to next higher grades by the Depart-mental Promotion Committee (DPC) which met here under the chair of Chief Secretary earlier this week but the minutes of the meeting have not been signed by the CS who is presently in Delhi and is scheduled to return on Monday morning.
Sources said that Cabinet Ministers till late Sunday evening were expecting approval of DPC promotions to be on the agenda of tomorrow's cabinet meeting but were surprised to note that the issue was not figuring on the agenda circulated to them in the evening.
Though a senior cabinet minister said such issues do not come to the cabinet through agenda but the fact remains that the proposal of promotions to high ranking services has to be placed on the agenda as per the precedents.
Another cabinet minister said that government was finding it difficult to adjust the just promoted ADGs because of the non-availability of the posts. "We don't have posts to adjust the ADGs against those posts, presently only one post of ADG, CID is lying vacant but we have to adjust 4 ADGs", the minister said. He, however, said that non-availability of posts does not mean that the promotions given to the officers will not be approved or will be deferred for the time being. "This is not the solution, we have to approve the DPC proposal as and when it comes to the cabinet" said the minister.
Sources, however, maintain that in case the promotions given to senior police officers are not approved by the cabinet in Monday's meeting, it will not be possible for the cabinet to go for the reshuffle in the police organization before the first week of January 2013 because the Chief Minister is leaving for London on a 10 day visit on 24th of this month. They said the police headquarters has already placed a detailed proposal before the government about the transfers of police officers at lower level which could not be taken for discussion if the proposal of promotions of 15 high ranking officers is not placed before cabinet on Monday.
They said that either the cabinet meeting scheduled for Monday has to be deferred by a couple of days till chief secretary signs the minutes and places a formal proposal before the cabinet or the cabinet has to meet again by or before 24th December.
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