As many as 40 IPS officers belonging to various cadres of 1997 batch have been empanelled as Inspector General (IG) in the Government of India. The officers are:
Hargobinder Singh, AGMUT cadre; Omendra Nath Bhaskar, Bihar cadre; Jaideep Singh, Chhattisgarh cadre; Amitabh Singh Dhillon, Haryana cadre; Viplav Kumar Choudhary, Jammu Kashmir cadre; Dr. S Sadanand Ilme, MA cadre; Janardan Singh, Nagaland cadre; Vijay Kumar Singh, Rajasthan cadre; S. Sengathir, Rajasthan cadre; Dr. Gajendra Kumar Goswami, Uttar Pradesh cadre; Makrand Deoskar, Madhya Pradesh cadre; Dhirendra Sambhaji Kutey, Odisha cadre; Arun Pal Singh, Punjab cadre; Dr. Sagar Preet Hooda, AGMUT cadre; Ms. Suman Gupta, Jharkhand cadre; Naveen Arora, Uttar Pradesh cadre; Saurabh Tripathi, Tripura cadre; K V Sharat Chandra, Karnataka cadre; Vijay Kumar, Telangana cadre; Rekha Lohani, Odisha cadre; Sanjay Kumar Jain, Telangana cadre; Supratim Sarkar, West Bengal cadre; Rahul Srivastava, West Bengal cadre; Pavan Kumar Rai, Punjab cadre; Garib Dass, Jammu & Kashmir cadre; Mahipal Yadav, Kerala cadre; Deepak Ratan, Uttar Pradesh cadre; K Jayaraman, West Bengal cadre; Sanjay Kumar, Odisha cadre; Rajesh Subarno, West Bengal cadre; Devendra Singh Chauhan, Telangana cadre; Sharad Agarwal, AGMUT cadre; Datla Sreenivasa Varma, Madhya Pradesh cadre; Anupam Singh Gehlot, Gujarat cadre; Vijay Kumar-II, Jammu & Kashmir cadre; V Murugesan, Uttarakhand cadre; Solomon Yash Kumar Minz, Madhya Pradesh cadre; N Madhusudhan Reddy, Andhra Pradesh cadre; Sanjay Kumar, Haryana cadre; Sanjay Kumar, Tamil Nadu cadre. The delay in the empanelment order due to the long process of DoPT.
The Empanelment of 1994-1997 batch IPS officers as IG :
94 batch in Aug 14
95 Batch in March 15
96 batch in Aug 15
97 batch after more than 2 years.
