MP Transfers Nine IPS Officers; HNC Mishra Named IG (Administration), Bhopal

Madhya Pradesh has transferred nine IPS officers in a fresh reshuffle. Harinarayana Chari Mishra, a 2003-batch officer, moves from IGP, State Crime Records Bureau, Bhopal, to IG (Administration) at Police Headquarters. The order covers postings from the IG rank down to district SPs.

Administration at Police Headquarters decides postings, promotions and disciplinary matters for the entire state force. That makes it one of the more consequential internal roles in the department — decisions taken there shape careers across the cadre. This reshuffle spans zonal IG postings, district SP charges and headquarters roles, touching officers from the 2003 batch through to 2019.

Ruchivardhan Mishra, 2006 batch, who held the Administration charge Mishra now takes, moves to IGP, Bhopal Rural Zone. Chandrasekhar Solanki, also 2006 batch, shifts from IGP, Special Armed Force, and IG, RAPTC, both in Indore, to IGP, Narmadapuram Zone. Mithlesh Shukla, another 2006-batch officer, had been holding additional charge of both Narmadapuram and Sagar zones; he now gets Sagar as a regular posting, ending that dual arrangement.

Simala Prasad, 2011 batch, moves from DIG, Police Headquarters, to DIG, Khargone. Yashpal Singh Rajput, 2012 batch, becomes SP, Railways, Indore, relieving Arvind Tiwari of the additional charge he held there. Rajput himself moves out of SP, Shajapur, to take up the new posting.

The remaining changes sit lower down the seniority ladder. Ramji Shrivastava, 2013 batch, moves from SP, Shahdol, to Assistant Inspector General at the MP Police Academy, Bhauri. Sanjay Kumar Agrawal, 2016 batch, swaps into Shrivastava's old post at SP, Shahdol, from AIG at the Academy. Priyanka Shukla, 2019 batch, moves from AIG at Police Headquarters to SP, Shajapur, taking over from Rajput.

Zonal IG changes tend to affect law-and-order coordination across the multiple districts grouped under each zone, and the state Home Department said the exercise was meant to fill vacancies that had piled up at both the zonal and district levels over recent months.

All nine officers are expected to take charge of their new postings within the week, the Madhya Pradesh Home Department said.