Chandigarh, July 15 -- The Punjab government on Monday promoted eight IPS officers of the 1994 batch to the rank of director general of police (DGP), a move that is set to further increase the number of top-level officials in an already top-heavy police force.

The home department on Monday notified the promotions of the new DGPs. The list includes 1994-batch IPS officers - Naresh Kumar, Ram Singh, Sudhanshu Shekhar Srivastava, Parveen Kumar Sinha, B Chandra Shekhar, Amardeep Singh Rai, Neerja Voruvuru, and Anita Punj.

With these promotions, Punjab, a small state with only 23 districts, now has 20 DGPs, the highest in the country. The state police already had 12 officers of DGP rank.

Uttar Pradesh, which is almost 4.7 times bigger than ...