MP Govt Gives Adarsh Katiyar Additional Charge as Special DG, Telecommunications

Adarsh Katiyar has been handed additional charge as Special Director General, Telecommunications. The 1992-batch IPS officer already serves as Director General (Administration) at Police Headquarters, Bhopal. The Home Department's order came through this week.

The Telecommunications wing runs the state police's radio and digital communication network — the backbone that connects district units, control rooms and headquarters during both routine policing and emergency response. Pairing it with the Administration charge makes some sense: network upgrades usually need budgetary and personnel calls that already run through the Administration wing Katiyar heads.

Katiyar has spent three decades in the Madhya Pradesh cadre, moving between field and headquarters postings. He now sits among the more senior officers in the state, holding the Administration charge that oversees personnel management, postings and internal discipline for the entire force.

His substantive post stays the same — DG (Administration) — with Telecommunications added as an additional charge rather than a transfer.

This kind of arrangement is common when a specialised technical wing has no dedicated officer readily available. A senior officer already at headquarters takes it on until a regular appointment is made — something that has happened more than once at the Telecommunications wing in recent years.

Katiyar will now handle personnel administration for the force alongside technical oversight of its communication network, including its continuing shift to digital and encrypted channels used during large-scale law-and-order deployments.

A regular appointment to the Telecommunications post will be considered separately, the Home Department said, with the additional charge holding in the interim.