The States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh will be sending 16 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers to various States in the country this year, which is said to be the highest in the last five years.
These officers are from the 2013 batch and their cadre allotments were recently released by the Ministry of Home Affairs. Among the 16 officers, three have been allocated to their home State Andhra Pradesh (till 2013 Andhra Pradesh and Telangana were considered as a single State). All these candidates are now undergoing training at the S.V.P. Police Academy.
The three officers allocated to AP and Telangana include Deepika, Krishna Rao Boddepalli and Apoorva Rao. Three more officers from other States were allocated to AP and Telangana this year taking the total to six and they are Rashmi G, Amit Bardar and Rahul Hegde.
The number of 16 is being considered significantly higher because last year (2012 batch) only five IPS officers were from AP and the previous year (2011) only six were from the unified State.
“The number is the highest in the last five years. A representation of 11 per cent is an enviable record,” says V. Gopala Krishna of Brain Tree that trains civils aspirants.
About 145 candidates out of the 981 aspirants who were finally certified for appointment based on the Civil Services Examination 2013 have been allocated to the Indian Police Service.
The sudden increase in IPS officers is being attributed to more number of candidates from the two States clearing the exam with better ranks due to increased awareness and also better coaching facilities.
Moreover, the IPS vacancies have also increased in the last few years. However, the two Telugu States were not lucky enough to produce IAS officers whose cadre allotments were done six months ago. The number of IAS officers from AP and Telangana is negligible.
In 2013 about 24,000 candidates tested their luck from two States including 17,100 from the twin cities.
However, the number increased to about 28,000 for the 2014 exam due to two-year age relaxation with the aspirants going on agitation against the CSAT.
