DS Chauhan superannuates, RK Vishwakarma takes overas officiating DGP of UP

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh officiating DGP DS Chauhan retired from the service on Friday and handed over the charge to director general of UP Police Recruitment and Promotion Board RK Vishwakarma.
Apart from holding the charge of the DGP, Chauhan was also heading the intelligence and vigilance establishment.
The state government has given the additional charge of vigilance to DG CB-CID Vijay Kumar.
The in-charge of intelligence is yet to be decided by the government.
DGP to hold addl charge of police recruitment board
Vishwakarma is the second successive officiating DGP. Mukul Goel, who was made DGP in June 2021, after full-time DGP Hitesh Chandra Awasthy had completed his tenure, was removed in May 2022, following which DS Chauhan was made the officiating DGP. Vishwakarma, the 1988 batch IPS officer, is due to retire in May this year.
Senior home officials said Vishwakarma has been given the charge based on seniority and will continue to hold the additional charge of police recruitment board. The government also approved the DG pay scale of DS Chauhan a day before his retirement. This will entail post-retirement benefits of DG for him. According to officials in the home department, the new permanent DGP can be appointed only after approval by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). A list of DG-rank officers is yet to be sent to UPSC for approval by the state government. According to the home officials, names of the officers who have completed 30 years of service and have more than six months left for retirement are sent to UPSC. The list if sent will include DG (civil defence) Mukul Goel, DG (prisons) Anand Kumar, DG (CB-CID) Vijay Kumar, and DG Ashish Gupta who has been kept on waiting.