Varanasi Police Commissionerate Ranks Fifth on August CM Dashboard, First on 22 Indicators

Varanasi Police Commissionerate placed fifth in Uttar Pradesh on the state government’s August Chief Minister Dashboard, according to figures cited by Commissioner of Police Mohit Agarwal. In 2023 and 2024 the commissionerate had often hovered near the seventieth rank on the same statewide board.

Agarwal said the ranking rests on 50 key performance indicators. Varanasi finished first in the state on 22 of those indicators and landed in the top five on six more. The commissionerate reported 100 percent action on crimes against women, on the SC/ST Act, and on cow-slaughter prevention. Excise cases, Gangster Act work and Goonda Act action were listed among the stronger columns.

Civic-service disposal and fire-safety NOCs were also reported at 100 percent. Dial 112 patrol response vehicles averaged 4.90 minutes to the scene in August across 20,191 cases, with most help arriving under 10 minutes. That put Varanasi first in the state in the 112 category for the month.

POCSO effective action was reported at 100 percent and second statewide. Heinous-crime disposal stood at 96.42 percent (fourth). Wanted arrests stood at 94.92 percent (fourth). Pending Gangster Act disposal was listed at 98 percent, and action on wanted persons at 99.47 percent, both inside the top five. Quality-investigation disposal across the Kashi, Varuna and Gomti zones was put at 93.71 percent.

Dashboard ranks compress a month of station work into percentages. They do not replace charge-sheets, trials or survivor outcomes. They do, however, give a comparable statewide stamp. Moving from a roughly seventieth-place pattern in earlier years to fifth in August is the arithmetic the commissionerate is putting on record through the CP’s briefing.

Dial 112’s 4.90-minute average is the number most residents will feel first. Twenty thousand-plus cases in a month means the average is not a cherry-picked sample. First place in that category is a service metric. It is not a claim that crime has vanished from Kashi, Varuna or Gomti zones. The 93.71 percent quality-investigation disposal figure across those three zones is the investigative counterpart to the response-time board.

Heinous-crime disposal at 96.42 percent and wanted arrests at 94.92 percent sit in the same top-four band. The Gangster Act and wanted-action percentages push the commissionerate into the statewide top five on those columns as well. Stacked with 22 outright firsts on a 50-indicator board, the August sheet is a dense performance brief rather than a single vanity rank.

One hundred percent columns on crimes against women, SC/ST Act matters, cow-slaughter prevention, civic-service disposal and fire-safety NOCs are categorical claims on the dashboard, not narrative colour. Readers can hold those percentages next to later months to see whether the board repeats.

This file stays inside the police-performance frame. It does not convert a dashboard rank into a political attack or a victory speech. Fifth overall, 22 firsts, six more top-fives, Dial 112 at 4.90 minutes across 20,191 cases, and the named percentages above are the locked August stamps. Later months will show whether the board holds.