Gujarat gets 5 new IPS officers, six from state allotted IPS cadre

As many as 200 candidates who cleared the Union Public Service Commission Civil Services Examination in 2023 have been allotted IPS cadres across the country. Of these, Gujarat will have five new IPS officers. Two of these are from Gujarat. The five IPS officers who have cleared the Civil Services examinations and allocated to Gujarat are 1. Prakar Kumar from Jharkhand, 2. Aniket Patel from Gujarat, 3. Kuhoo Garg from Uttarakhand, 4. Karankumar Panna from Gujarat and 5. Deepak Yadav from Haryana.

The six Gujarat cadre IPS officers are Aniket Patel and Karankumar Panna who were allocated their home state, while Aditya Amrani, son of former IAS Sanjay Amrani, has been allocated Assam Meghalay cadre. Patoliya Raj Bhikhubhai and Desai Jainil Jagdishbhai, both have been allocated Manipur cadre, while the only female candidate from Gujarat, IPS Kanchanben Gohil, has been allocated Nagaland cadre.

Aditya Amrani was allotted Indian Railways Management Services in 2022 and very next year he got IPS cadre. Aniket Patel, who secured 183th rank in 2023 UPSC result, is from Vadali in Sabarkantha district, while Kanchan Gohil, who secured had All India Rank 506th, is a resident of Kodinar, Gir Somnath, Gujarat. This was Kanchan's second attempt and now she is alloted Nagaland. Karankumar Panna Mansukhbhai secured AIR 486 in the UPSC 2023. He is from Surat, Gujarat and passed UPSC after studying in private coaching in Surat and now he has got Gujarat cadre. Patoliya Raj Bhikhubhai and Desai Jainil Jagdishbhai ranked 488 and 490 respectively have been allocated Manipur cadre.