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PANJIM: Director General of Goa Police Muktesh Chander has been transferred to Delhi while AGMUT cadre IPS officer Pranab Nanda will replace him from March 1, 2019. The order from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) was issued on Monday, another development that comes ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
Nanda, a 1988-batch IPS officer joined the cadre from central deputation. The outgoing DGP was posted in Goa in February 2016 from his last posting in Delhi.
Chander said that he has been granted permission to attend a fellowship program in the UK that begins from March 24, 2019. “I am happy with my successful tenure with many significant achievements. I am going for this very prestigious and fully paid Chevening India Cyber Security Fellowships at Cranfield University, UK to learn more about cyber security at international level,” he said. The 10-weeks program was recently cleared and approved by the Joint AGMUT cadre.
Chander had taken on priority the traffic management and anti-crime drives in a bid to make Goa a safer and better place for the visitors and the local residents. He has been instrumental in upgrading the cyber security cell in view of increasing cases of cyber crime in the State and introducing Traffic Sentinel Scheme involving general public to report traffic violations to the police and win rewards. The Scheme however ran into controversy with even legislators demanding its withdrawal but DGP defended the scheme.
citing that it reduced number of fatalities and increased prosecution since its launch over a year ago. Chander had earlier worked as DIG in Goa.
Earlier this year, IPS officers, Superintendents of Police Kartik Kashyap and Priyanka Kashyap were transferred to Mizoram, after completing a five long years of posting in Goa. With the Lok Sabha election dates scheduled to be announced anytime soon, transfers within the Goa Police department of officers from the rank of police sub inspectors to deputy superintendents of police was also carried out last week.
