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IG scale assured for CAPF vet officers after 20 yrs in service

CHANDIGARH:The Centre has approved dynamic assured career progression (DACP) for the combatised veterinary officers of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs).

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Vijay Mohan

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 21

The Centre has approved dynamic assured career progression (DACP) for the combatised veterinary officers of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs). Consequently, promotions of veterinary officers from the level of assistant commandant (Vet) to higher ranks will not be based on available vacancies, but on the duration of service, sources said.

Further, automatic pay scale upgradation to pay matrix 13A and 14 are assured to all officers, implying that every officer is guaranteed promotion to the rank of commandant after 13 years service and the pay level of an inspector general after 20 years of service.

The DACP will be implemented with effect from April 2002, the date from which the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has implemented an order of the Central Administrative Tribunal passed in a similar case in 2010. The scheme is applicable to officers in the Border Security Force, Central Reserve Police Force, Central Industrial Security Force, Indo-Tibetan Border Police, Sashastra Seema Bal, Assam Rifles and the National Security Guard.

According to orders issued by the Home Ministry on December 19, an assistant commandant will be promoted as deputy commandant after four years of service, and thereafter as second-in-command after another five years.

Promotion to the rank of commandant, equivalent to a colonel in the Army, will be after four years of service in the previous rank, placing the officer in level-13 of the pay matrix. Another three-year service at this rank will place the officer in level-13A, which is equivalent to a Brigadier.

Thereafter, pay upgradation to Level 14, in which an inspector general of police of a Major General is placed, will be done after four years service at level13-A. If there are no vacancies at DIG or IG level, automatic pay scale upgradation to pay matrix 13A and 14 is assured provided their annual confidential reports are at benchmark.

Why the move 

  • Aim is to remove stagnation in veterinary cadre of Central Armed Police Forces
  • Paramilitary vet officers are deployed in border locations to look after horses, mules and camels that provide logistic support 
  • The officers also look after CAPF dog squads that are used for security cover
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