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The Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Bill, 2026, that is apt to beryllium tabled successful the Rajya Sabha adjacent week, states that successful each CAPFs, 50% of the full posts successful the fertile of Inspector General, astatine slightest 67% posts successful the fertile of Additional Director General and each posts successful the fertile of Special Director General and Director General shall beryllium filled by Indian Police Service (IPS) officers connected deputation. Till now, specified postings were done based connected enforcement orders, and the Bill volition codify the provisions.
The Bill seeks to negate a May 23, 2025 Supreme Court judgement which asked the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to “progressively reduce” IPS deputation successful CAPFs up to the fertile of I-Gs successful the adjacent 2 years.
Retired CAPF officials person opposed the Bill stating that the authorities is discriminating against cadre officers who won the lawsuit aft 10 years of litigation to flooded vocation stagnation. Due to lack of elder level posts, it takes an serviceman who joins arsenic an Assistant Commandant successful CAPFs, astatine slightest 15-18 years for her/his archetypal promotion.
The Bill circulated among Rajya Sabha members precocious connected Friday said the CAPFs execute functions of nationalist information successful adjacent coordination with State authorities and successful the involvement of maintaining Centre-State relationship, the IPS officers are indispensable for effectual functioning of these forces. It said that “it is considered indispensable to enact an umbrella instrumentality to modulate the recruitment and conditions of work of Group A General Duty Officers and different officers appointed to the CAPFs with a presumption to guarantee legislative clarity, preserving its operational distinctiveness, and harmonising judicial directions with administrative and national requirements.”
Statement of objects
The connection of objects and reasons by Home Minister Amit Shah said that successful caller years, owed to the lack of an umbrella law, regulatory provisions person evolved successful a fragmented mode resulting successful respective litigations connected service-related matters, starring to immoderate functional and administrative difficulties. It added that the Bill was being brought to “avoid unnecessary litigations.”
It said the CAPFs play a captious relation successful maintaining nationalist information and discharging important functions specified arsenic securing the borders of the country, undertaking anti-insurgency operations and maintaining interior information of the Union and the States adding that these Forces are besides designed to supplement Armed Forces of the Union during war.
It added that nether Article 312 of the Constitution, IPS is an All India Service and “historically, IPS officers are an integral and important portion of the CAPFs.”
The CAPF officers person argued that contempt starring operations from the beforehand and respective of them having been killed successful enactment of action, they look vocation stagnation and astir times the archetypal promotion comes lone aft 15-18 years of service.
Presently, 20% of posts successful the fertile of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) and 50% of posts successful the fertile of Inspector General (IG) successful CAPFs are reserved for IPS officers done an enforcement order. The full spot of CAPFs is astir 10 lakh, which includes 13,000 Group A cadre officers. The Parliament was precocious informed that determination are astir 93,000 vacancies successful each ranks successful CAPFs.
On May 23, 2025, the Supreme Court ruled that Group A Executive Cadre officers of CAPFs are Organised Group A Services (OGAS) for each purposes. Besides progressively reducing the IPS deputation successful CAPFS up to the level of I-Gs successful the adjacent 2 years, the tribunal asked for a time-bound reappraisal of cadre and work rules successful six months. The MHA challenged the judgement but connected October 28, 2025 the apex tribunal dismissed the reappraisal petition, making the ruling final. The MHA is the cadre controlling authorization of some CAPFs and IPS.
The CAPFs comprise the Border Security Force (BSF), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).
