Appointments Committee of Cabinet named Heads of Paramilitary Organisations-ITBP,BSF & SSB

The appointments committee of the Cabinet on 30 August 2011 cleared the names of three senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officers as the head of three paramilitary organisations namely the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Border Security Force (BSF) and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).

Secretary (Internal Security) in the Ministry of Home Affairs, U K Bansal was named as the next Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF). Bansal who is a 1974 batch IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre is to replace Raman Srivastava.

The government has also appointed Secretary (Security) in the Cabinet Secretariat, Pranay Sahay, as the next Director General of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). Sahay is set to succeed Y S Dadwal.

Ranjit Sinha, the former director general of the Railway Protection Force (RPF), was selected to head the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) which guards India’s borders with China. A 1974 batch officer, Sinha earlier had stints in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the ITBP.