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IPS officers seek Achuthanandan’s help

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala chapter of the IPS Association has submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan urging him to urgently intervene with the Union government to set right the “patent injustice” meted out to the police, particularly members of the IPS, by the Central Pay Commission.

In the memorandum signed by the secretary, the State unit of the organisation charged the commission with having downgraded the IPS and demoralising the top echelons of the State police services all over the country. It added that an IPS officer had on an average been effectively deprived of six to seven years of his seniority and status when compared to the other services.

It contended that the commission proposals had made the IPS considerably less attractive than even the Group A services of the Central government. At some levels, the IPS had been brought below even the Group B services. It pointed out that the pay scales of the IPS had always been comparable to that of the IAS and slightly higher than that of most Group A services other than the Foreign Service. But the pay scale recommended for the IPS was “substantially and prejudicially” lower than that for IAS officers of corresponding seniority and even lower than for most Group A services. Even existing benefits and equations had been drastically altered to the gross disadvantage of the IPS.

The memorandum maintained that the “discrimination against the IPS” was most serious at two critical levels, at that of the DGP and that of the DIG.

At present, a DGP with two years of service would get the basic pay of the Chief Secretary. Under the pay commission’s recommendations, no DGP would ever get the basic salary of a Chief Secretary.

His pay would be far below that of the Chief Secretary and the Additional Chief Secretary.

An officer who attained the DGP’s rank in 2003 in Kerala after 32 years of service was on January 1, 2006, getting a pay of Rs.26,000 which was the same as that of the Chief Secretary’s.

As per the commission’s report, his salary on January 1, 2006, would be refixed as Rs.58,270 whereas that of the Chief Secretary and the Additional Chief Secretaries would be Rs.80,000.

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