" Cadre management in CPMF
An officer of CPMF does not pick up his first promotion before 8th or 9th year of service when he becomes a Deputy Commandant although the prescribed minimum is 4 years. The 2nd promotion to the rank of second in command does not come before the 15th year of service even though the prescribed residency is only 11 years. The next rank of Commandant comes in the 20th or 21st year of service whereas the prescribed minimum is only 14 years. This rank is equivalent to that of SSP which an IPS officer or the officers of any organised group A service get in their 13th year of service on a time scale basis. The situation will further worsen because they have increased the numbers of Deputy Commandant authorised in the units to 6 from 4 without any corresponding increase in the vacancies at higher levels.
It is only a few who are able to reach the level of DIG after putting in more that 30 - 32 years of service although the prescribed minimum is only 20 years.Becoming IG is a dream come true for a cadre officer. Only about one officer per batch of 50-60 is able to reach this level. Beyond that the there is no scope.As Cadre officers, we do not seek any parity with any other service specially not with the IPS because we do not want to be equated with a service which does not have the trust of public at large and even their own ground level Police constabulary. We also know that the organisational pyramid will preclude most of the officers from reaching beyond DIG.
What we seek and humbly pray to the Government is that we CPMF officers must have an avenue available to grow in our own organisation. A lieutenant of army can theoretically aspire to become chief one day. An IPS can aspire and will become DG of his state. An IAS officer will become Chief Secretary one day and so on. Officers of all the services can aspire to reach the very top. But a CPMF officer is debarred by the rules from becoming Additional DG, Special DG and DG of the force. He is also debarred from most of the posts of DIG and IG. Why is that so? In what manner an IPS officer is better than a cadre officer of the CPMF to man only the higher level posts even though he does not have any ground level experience or knowledge of the work culture and ethos of the forces. How can he plan the personnel and training policies of these forces when does not know anything about these forces.
The pay commission had made some far reaching recommendations like 100% quota for the cadre officers upto the rank of DIG and 50 % quota from the ranks of IG and above. However, the IPS lobby is not letting these reforms be cleared. There are atleast 20 Commandants waiting in each of the CPMF waiting for the new cadre rules to be framed which the Government has ordained but the IPS lobby is not letting pass. So these unlucky officers can neither be promoted under the old rules and new rules are not being framed. This situation has blocked the entire chain down below and hundreds of officers are suffering. The Government also has sanctioned some posts of Additional DG for cadre officers but again for the last 9 months no cadre officer has been promoted as no rules have been allowed to be framed by the very same lobby. They (IPS) have but already been promoted on these new posts. Why are they not allowing these rules to be framed - the reason is simple - they had thought that these vacancies will accrue to them but the government decided to give a share to the cadre officers.
It does not need an IQ of 140 to decipher who the author of feed back(published on 1st May ) to travails of Seema Prahari could be. He belongs to the same tribe that has been subjugating the CPMF so far. If he was so familiar with the cadre management of CPMF why is he being so economical with the truth by hiding the facts brought out above.
Seema Prahari
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