A cabinet meeting held at Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal's official residence Wednesday evening decided to promote 18 SSPs of Nepal Police, 11 SSPs of Armed Police Force (APF) and seven senior investigation officers of National Investigation Department (NID) to the post of Investigation Directors (equivalent to DIG).
The government has created nine additional DIG positions in Nepal Police and four additional DIG positions in APF.
With the addition of DIG positions, Nepal Police departments including Traffic Police Office, Airport, Crime Investigation Division, Communication Division and Police Hospital, and APF departments including border security force and APF training academy will be headed by DIGs.
Those promoted from Nepal Police include Shyam Nepal, Upendra Kant Aryal, Rajendra Singh Bhandari, Narayan Bastakoti, Surendra Bahadur Shah, Kedar Prasad Saud, Ramesh Shekhar Bajracharya, Bigyan Raj Sharma, Ganesh Raj Rai, Birendra Babu Shrestha, Yadav Adhikari, Parshuram Khatri, Pratap Singh Thapa, Bishwa Raj Singh Shahi, Sushil Bar Singh Thapa, Bhakti Nath Majhi, Suman Shumsher JBR and Kulesh Bahadur Thapa.
All the promoted officers were appointed as Inspectors in 1986. All but Majhi and Nepal entered police service from the same position. Likewise, all but Majhi were promoted to the post of SSPs on August 24, 2006. Majhi was appointed SSP the next year.
Those promoted from APF include Prakash Ojha, Prem Kumar Shahi, Singh Bahadur Shrestha, Shushil Kumar Shrestha, Bhisma Kant Aryal, Rishav Dev Bhattarai, Devendra Kumar Subba, Jeevan Kumar Thapa, Ranjan Koirala, Mahavir Gurung and Mukunda Thapa Chhetri.
Those promoted from NID include Ganesh Thapa, Raj Kumar Raj Bhandari, Nava Raj Thapa, Kapil Singh Ale, Devendra Kumar Singh, Dev Raj Bhatta and Gyanendra Bhatta. nepalnews.com

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