Shortage of IPS Officers

There is a shortage of IPS officers to deal with the security challenges across the country. As on 01.01.2010 the total in position strength of IPS officers was 3383 against the authorized strength of 4013. Cadre-wise details are as under:

State/Cadre	Auth. Strength	In-position Strength	Shortage
ANDHRA PRADESH	226	185	41
AGMU	196	168	28
ASSAM - MEGHALAYA	172	124	48
BIHAR	193	153	40
CHHATTISGARH	81	76	5
GUJARAT	161	141	20
HARYANA	117	109	8
HIMACHAL PRADESH	75	64	11
JAMMU & KASHMIR	135	107	28
JHARKHAND	110	102	8
KARNATAKA	172	132	40
KERALA	142	115	27
MADHYA PRADESH	291	215	76
MAHARASHTRA	236	208	28
MANIPUR -TRIPURA	121	102	19
NAGALAND	60	37	23
ORISSA	159	99	60
PUNJAB	144	112	32
RAJASTHAN	193	154	39
SIKKIM	32	32	0
TAMIL NADU	236	196	40
UTTAR PRADESH	404	346	58
UTTARAKHAND	60	58	2
WEST BENGAL	297	226	71
IPS officers of 2009 Batch, presently under training in NPA.	NA	122	NA
Total	4013	3383	630

In order to increase the number of IPS officers, as per requirement and in the light of the recommendations of the Kamal Kumar Committee, the strength
and composition of the State Cadres has been reviewed and the total cadre strength has been raised to 4730. The annual batch size of regular recruits
has been increased to 150 from 130 earlier, from 2009 onwards

This was stated by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Shri Ajay Maken in written reply to a question in the
Lok Sabha yesterday.