Rajiv Mehta appointed as Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau

Rajiv Mehta is appointed as a Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on 18 September 2012. His appointment will be on deputation basis for a period of five years from the date of assumption of charge of the post or till the date of his superannuation or until further orders.

Rajiv Mehta is an IPS from 1981 batch of Assam-Meghalaya cadre who is currently serving as the Additional Deputy General (Law and Order) in Meghalaya.

He was an alumnus of St. Columba’s and St. Stephen’s College of Delhi.  He had also taught for two years at Lawrence School, Sanawar, before joining the Indian Police Service and had also given his service in the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) as an IG, as well as an advisor to the Indian mission in the European Economic Community in Brussels.

He took over this service from OPS Malik, a 1975-batch IPS officer of the UP cadre, who was appointed to the post in December 2008 and he is going to serve the agency till 2016.

The NCB is a leading law enforcement and intelligence agency under the Ministry of Home Affairs, responsible for countering drug trafficking and illegal substances' abuse. The Director General of NCB is usually an officer of the Indian Police Service or the Indian Revenue Service.

NCB is the most vital agency for coordination between various central and state government departments to counter the menace of illegal drugs and contraband.