Hello, Warriors. The country’s two largest paramilitary forces CRPF and BSF today got new chiefs today, on 29th February.
While senior IPS officer K Durga Prasad will take over as the new Director General CRPF, 1982-batch Rajasthan cadre police officer KK Sharma will head the Border Security Force. The Tamil Nadu cadre IPS officer Archana Ramasundram took over as Director General of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).
About K Durga Prasad:
- K Durga Prasad is a 1981-batch Telangana cadre IPS officer.
- He took charge from his predecessor Prakash Mishra who superannuated as the chief of the about 3-lakh personnel strong Central Reserve Police Force today.
- The officer is best remembered for raising CRPF’s elite jungle warfare unit CoBRA taking on Naxals during his stint as an Inspector General in 2008. The task was especially given to him considering his experience with a similar and highly successful commando unit of Andhra Pradesh police called the ‘Greyhounds’.
- Prasad’s tenure as the Director of the Special Protection Group (SPG), entrusted to secure serving and former Prime Ministers, ended abruptly in 2014.
- His tenure will last till February next year.
About KK Sharma:
- The second largest paramilitary force BSF also got its new chief as KK Sharma who took over from outgoing DG D K Pathak.
- KK Sharma is a 1982-batch Rajasthan cadre police officer.
- He will head the estimated 2.5 lakh troops of BSF.
- KK Sharma will be in office till September 2018 when he’ll reach his superannuation.
About Archana Ramasundram:
- It’s for the first time that the government has appointed a woman IPS officer as the chief of a paramilitary force.
- Tamil Nadu cadre IPS officer Archana Ramasundram took over as Director General of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).
- 58-year-old Ms. Ramasundaram is the first woman police officer to be appointed chief of a paramilitary force.
- She will serve this post till the date of her superannuation on September 30, 2017.
- The IPS Officer has also been in the news in the year 2014 when her appointment as the additional director in the CBI was challenged in the Supreme Court.
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The SSB is entrusted with guarding the country’s frontiers with Nepal and Bhutan whereas BSF is entrusted with guarding the India-Pakistan and India-Bangladesh borders and CRPF is the lead anti-Naxal and counter-insurgency operations force.
Apart from these, the other two paramilitary forces are the Central Industrial Security Force and Indo Tibetan Border Police.
