IPS Officer Anurag Gets Additional Charge of IGP, SAF and RAPTC Indore

Anurag, IGP of the Indore Rural Zone, has picked up additional charge of IGP, Special Armed Force, Indore, and RAPTC, Indore. He is a 2003-batch IPS officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre. The state Home Department confirmed the order this week.

The Special Armed Force and the Rapid Action Police Training Centre together anchor a large part of the state's reserve policing and training setup. SAF supplies armed reserve companies for law-and-order deployment; RAPTC trains recruits and runs refresher courses for personnel across the force. Putting both under an officer who already holds the Rural Zone charge brings operational and training functions in the Indore region under one command.

Anurag has held both district and zonal-level postings over more than two decades in the state cadre. He currently heads law-and-order responsibilities for the rural areas surrounding Indore, one of the state's largest urban centres.

His substantive posting — IGP, Indore Rural Zone — stays with him. SAF and RAPTC come in as additional charges, to hold until the state makes a dedicated appointment to those posts.

This mirrors a pattern elsewhere in the same reshuffle: officers already posted in a region take on extra technical or reserve-force charges rather than the state making fresh, standalone appointments, reflecting a limited pool of senior officers currently available for zonal postings.

Anurag now handles rural law-and-order coordination for Indore alongside operational readiness for SAF companies and RAPTC trainees, including deployment planning for reserve companies during festival and law-and-order duty periods.

The Madhya Pradesh Home Department did not specify a timeline for a regular appointment to the two posts.