UT recommends Shenvi’s name

Ramkrishan Upadhyay

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 22

The Chandigarh Administration has selected Ashwin Shenvi for the post of UT Senior Superintendent of Police (Traffic) from a panel of IPS officers sent by the  Haryana Government.    

 Sources said the Administration would send its recommendation to the Ministry of Home Affairs for approval.

Last month, the Haryana Government had sent the names of three IPS officers — Simardeep Singh , Dr Arun Nehra and Ashwin Shenvi — for the post.

All three officers were called for interviews last week  by the Administration. The post of SSP (Traffic) has been lying vacant since the term of Maneesh Chaudhary, a 2005-batch IPS officer of the Haryana cadre, ended on May 7. 

The Administrator had turned down the first  panel of officers on the grounds that all three officers lacked the required experience for the post and were promotee police officers.   The Administration selected Shenvi from the new panel of officers.

Shenvi, a 2006-batch IPS  officer, is posted as the SP  (Hisar). He  has also served as the  SP of Sirsa, Bhiwani and Kurukshetra. He has also served  as the DCP of Panchkula. Meanwhile, the Administration will also hold interviews of PCS and HCS officers next week. The Administration received panels of officers from Haryana and Punjab recently and will select officers after the interviews.

The Administration has been facing an acute shortage of officers after the Ministry of Home Affairs transferred several AGMUT-cadre IAS officers.