Know Your IPS: New ITBP chief SS Deswal

Surjeet Singh Deswal, 1984 batch Haryana cadre IPS, was on Wednesday appointed as the new chief of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), a force that guards the nation’s frontier with China, apart from providing security in some pockets of Maoist-hit Bastar range of Chhattisgarh. Deswal was till recently serving as the Director General of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). Here are a few things you may like to know about Deswal.

IRTS officer Ravinder Goyal prematurely repatriated from NITI Aayog; IPS Arvind Kumar gets 2-yr extension in ITBP

Ravinder Goyal, 1987 batch Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) officer and Adviser in NITI Aayog, has been prematurely repatriated to his parent cadre with imposition of extended cooling off condition. In another development, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the proposal of the ministry of home affairs for extension of deputation tenure Arvind Kumar, 1988 batch IPS officer and IG of ITBP for a period of…

Know more about new ITBP chief Subhas Goswami

DIRECTOR of Hyderabad-based SVP National Police Academy Subhas Goswami will be the new Director General of Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), a force that is deployed on guarding 3,488 km of Indo-China border ranging from Karakoram Pass in Ladakh to Jachep La in Arunachal Pradesh. One and half years ago, Goswami, a 1977 batch Assam cadre IPS officer, was considered to be the top contender for the post of…

Headless Departments: ITBP joins government’s temporary arrangement list

THE adhoc appointment of Dr Mahboob Alam, a 1981 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IPS, as director general of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) is the latest in the series of government’s temporary arrangements for heading departments and organizations. The only exception was the reversal of the government’s own order of a temporary arrangement for the post of…