Bhopal : Vivek Sagar, a member of Tokyo Olympic bronze medal winner hockey team, will be the first DSP from sports quota in the state. The announcement was made by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan at a felicitation function organized at Minto Hall on Thursday.
No player has so far been appointed to such a high rank in the state government. Direct appointment through sports quota has so far been confined to post of assistant sub-inspector.
Addressing the audience, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan shared the conversation that he had with his fellow passenger Vivek Sagar, the wristy boy from Chandoun village in Hoshangabad, in the car. Chouhan asked Sagar if he would be interested in becoming Deputy Superintendent of Police.” To this the player replied: “It will be very difficult for me to work and play together.”
: Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan embracing Olympian Vivek Sagar dearly during his felicitation ceremony at Minto Hall in Bhopal on Thursday. | FP photo
Vivek and his parents with chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. | FP
Narrating the incident, Chouhan told the audience that he told Sagar, “I don’t want you to come and sit at police headquarters. When you are done with your sporting life, you will have a government job with higher position” and the latter replied, “I will go with your words, sir.”
Home Minister Narottam Mishra had recently announced that medal winners of national and international sports event would be appointed directly in the MP Police.
Every year, recruitment against 60 posts would be made under the scheme, including 10 posts of sub-inspectors and 50 of constables, Mishra had said.
The minister had said that the sportspersons who win medals in the Olympics, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games would get appointment as sub-inspectors.
Winners of national-level events would be given appointment as constables. Specially-abled persons too would have the same facility for appointment.
