Meenu, daughter of a teacher, will be the lone Bihari woman IPS officer to serve the state. She is a postgraduate in History.
Though several women have been allotted the Bihar cadre and are serving the state, they hail from other states. For example, Kim, the present Superintendent of Police, Patna, and a 2008 batch officer, is a domicile of Uttar Pradesh.
Meenu will work as a trainee in Sitamarhi district.
Out of eight IPS officers allotted the Bihar cadre, two are residents of Bihar while three are from Uttar Pradesh and one each from Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.
Dhurat Saayli Savla Ram, a native of Mumbai is another woman IPS officer of the 2010 batch who has been allotted the Bihar cadre. She has been posted at Katihar for field training.
Deepak Burnawal and Rajiv Misra, both residents of Pratapgarh in UP, have been allotted Banka and Munger districts for six-and-a-half month field training. Himanshu Shankar Trivedi, a native of Rai Bareli also in UP, has been allotted Aurangabad district of the state.
Chandan Kumar Kushwaha, a resident of Bhagalpur in Bihar, has been posted at Bettiah whereas Hari Prasath S, a native of Koyampattur in Tamil Nadu, has been allotted Rohtas for training.
Sudhir Kumar Porika, a resident of Varangal in Andhra Pradesh, has been notified to join at Kishanganj for training.
The officers would work as Station House Officers, Investigating Officers, Circle Inspectors, Deputy Superintendents of Police and Sergeant Majors during the six and a half months of training.
Bihar has a sanctioned strength of 231 IPS officers. The Centre has increased the quota of the IPS officers in the recent past. As a result, more and more newly appointed IPS officers are allotted the Bihar cadre.

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