GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 3rd August. SSB Director General (DG) Daljit Singh Chawdhary will hold the additional charge of the Border Security Force (BSF) following the premature repatriation of incumbent Nitin Agrawal, a government order stated on Saturday.
Nitin Agrawal, a 1989-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Kerala cadre, was removed as the BSF DG on Friday by an order of the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC), headed by the prime minister.
A Union home ministry order issued on Saturday specified that Chawdhary, a 1990-batch IPS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, will hold the additional charge of the post of BSF DG “till the appointment of a regular incumbent or until further orders, whichever is earlier.”
Currently serving as the DG of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), Chawdhary oversees the force responsible for guarding India’s borders with Nepal and Bhutan.
The ACC’s decision on Friday also included the premature and immediate repatriation of Agrawal’s deputy and Special DG (west), Yogesh Bahadur Khurania, to his parent cadre of Odisha.
The government’s decision to remove the two top BSF officers comes amid a series of terror attacks in the Jammu region along the India-Pakistan international border, resulting in the deaths of several army and security personnel as well as civilians.
The BSF is tasked with guarding India’s frontiers with Pakistan on the west and Bangladesh on the east.
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