Significant updates have been rolled out for the Indian Police Service (IPS), particularly concerning their pay and career progression. These new regulations, effective retrospectively from January 1, 2006, aim to streamline non-functional financial upgradations and ensure equitable advancement opportunities. A key change introduces a mechanism where senior IPS officers in state cadres can receive non-functional financial upgradation if a junior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from the same batch is posted at the Centre in a specific higher grade. This move addresses potential disparities in career progression for officers who have not yet been promoted to certain grades but are senior to their IAS counterparts in central postings. Furthermore, the rules detail how pay will be fixed for officers at the Centre who receive such non-functional upgradation, ensuring a transparent method for calculating increments. The amendments also refine the initial pay fixation for promoted or selected officers in specific pay bands, and update terminology for key police leadership roles in certain union territories. These changes reflect a commitment to fair and structured career development within the Indian Police Service.
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MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS
(Department of Personnel and Training)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 3rd March, 2010
G.S.R. 172 (E).-In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 3 of the All India Services Act, 1951 (61 of 1951), the Central Government after consultation with the Governments of the States concerned, hereby makes the following rules to further amend the Indian Police Service (Pay) Rules, 2007, namely:-
1 (i) These rules may be called the Indian Police Service (Pay) Amendment Rules, 2010.
(ii) They shall be deemed to have come in force on the $1^{\text {st }}$ day of January, 2006.
2. In sub rule (1) of rule 3 of the Indian Police Service (Pay) Rules, 2007 (hereinafter referred to as the said rules), for Note 3, the following Note shall be substituted, namely:-
“Note 3: Whenever any Indian Administrative Service officer of a particular batch is posted at the Centre to a particular grade carrying a specific grade pay in PB-3 or PB-4 or HAG scale, the members of the Service, who are senior to such Indian Administrative Service officer by two years or more and have not so far been promoted to that particular grade, shall be granted the same grade on non-functional basis in their respective State cadres from the date of posting of the Indian Administrative Service officer at the Centre in that particular grade.In the case of those members of the Service who are posted at the Centre, at the time of grant of Non-Functional upgradation, their pay in pay band will be fixed by granting one increment @ $3 \%$ of the existing pay in the pay band and existing grade pay subject to the minimum of the pay band or pay scale of non-functional upgradation, and they will not be granted higher grade pay or pay scale, as the case may be. Such officers will continue getting the grade pay of the post against which they have been appointed at the Centre under the Central Staffing Scheme along with Central Deputation Tenure Allowance (CDTA), wherever applicable.”
3. In Schedule I of the said rules, for paragraph (1), the following paragraph shall be substituted, namely:-
“(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the first proviso to sub-rule (1) of rule 3, and the Notes thereunder, the initial pay of a promoted officer or an officer appointed by selection, as the case may be, shall be fixed in the pay band 3 or pay band 4 by adding one increment equal to $3 \%$ of the sum of the pay in the pay band and the grade pay applicable which will be rounded off to the next multiple of 10 and in addition, the grade pay of Senior Time Scale or Junior Administrative Grade or Selection Grade, corresponding to pay scale or grade pay in the State Service, shall be granted.
Provided that the grade pay attached to Selection Grade shall be granted with the pay in running pay band -4 only.”
4. In Schedule – II.A of the said rules, for the entries “Director General of Police (head of Police force)” occurring in column (2) against the entry “Dethi (UT)”, the entries “Commissioner of Police (head of Police force)” shall be substituted.Note : The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary vide number G.S.R. 108(E), dated the 21 st February, 2008 and were subsequently amended vide GSR numbers as follows:
| GSR No. | Date |
|---|---|
| $692(E)$ | $27 / 09 / 2008$ |
| $189(E)$ | $24 / 03 / 2009$ |
| $231(E)$ | $01 / 04 / 2009$ |
| $497(E)$ | $07 / 07 / 2009$ |
| $589(E)$ | $20 / 08 / 2009$ |
| $771(E)$ | $20 / 10 / 2009$ |
| $894(E)$ | $11 / 12 / 2009$ |
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
The Central Government has decided to extend the benefit of nonfunctional financial upgradation to Indian Police Service officers in pay band 3 or pay band 4 or HAG scale in their respective State cadres, linked to the posting of an Indian Administrative Service officer at the Centre in that particular grade. The Indian Police Service (Pay) Rules, 2007 are being amended accordingly with effect from the 1 st January, 2006.
It is certified that no member of the Indian Police Service is likely to be adversely affected by giving retrospective effect to these rules.