The Uttar Pradesh Government has promoted 28 Provincial Police Service (PPS) officers to the Indian Police Service (IPS) and directed them to continue at their present places of posting until further orders.
The promotion order was issued after the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) notified the 2025 Select List, approving the induction of eligible PPS officers into the IPS cadre under the Indian Police Service (Appointment by Promotion) Regulations, 1955, following the recommendation of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).
The promoted officers are:
- Kamal Kishore
- Suresh Chandra Rawat
- Shoaib Iqbal
- Rahul Mithas
- Alok Kumar Sharma
- Rajkumar
- Mahesh Singh Atri
- Vineet Bhatnagar
- Jitendra Srivastava
- Shashi Shekhar Singh
- Kuldeep Singh
- Gyanendra Nath Prasad
- Harendra Pratap Yadav
- Vansh Raj Singh Yadav
- Krishna Gopal
- Madhuban Kumar Singh
- Kapil Dev Singh
- Balwant Chaudhary
- Rahul Srivastava
- Rajesh Pandey
- Preeti Bala Gupta
- Vikas Chandra Tripathi
- Purnendu Singh
- Harendra Kumar
- Martand Prakash Singh
- Abhay Nath Tripathi
- Pavitra Mohan Tripathi
- Devesh Sharma
Earlier, the Ministry of Home Affairs had approved the induction of these officers into the IPS cadre through the 2025 Select List after the UPSC accepted the recommendations of the Selection Committee, which met on June 25, 2026.
The MHA notification had included 29 names, with Sanjay Kumar Yadav placed at Serial No. 1. However, his appointment to the IPS cadre was kept provisional, subject to the final outcome of pending disciplinary proceedings. Consequently, the Uttar Pradesh Government’s promotion order covers 28 officers, excluding Sanjay Kumar Yadav.
The 2025 Select List comprises officers from different PPS batches, including two officers from the 1997 batch, one from the 1998 batch, 15 from the 1999 batch and 10 from the 2000 batch.
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