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04/03/23 09:11 AM IST

IPS officer Rashmi Shukla named Director-General of SSB

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  • Senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, Rashmi Shukla has been appointed as the Director-General of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).
About Rashmi Shukla
  • Senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Rashmi Shukla has been appointed as the Director-General of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), a border-guarding force deployed along the Nepal and Bhutan border.
  • Shukla, a 1988 batch IPS officer of the Maharashtra cadre, was previously posted with the Central Reserve Police (CRPF) and headed the State Intelligence Department in Maharashtra Police.
About SSB
  • The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) was founded in 1963 and is headquartered in New Delhi.
  • Its primary mandate is to guard India's borders with Nepal and Bhutan.
  • It is also responsible for promoting a sense of security among the people living in border areas.
  • SSB comes under the aegis of the Ministry of Home Affairs and a part of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF), along with six other central security forces in India (Assam Rifles, Border Security Force, Central Industrial Security Force, Central Reserve Police Force, Indo Tibetan Border Police and National Security Guard).
  • It was declared a lead intelligence agency for Indo Nepal in June 2001 and assigned the Indo Nepal border.
  • In 2004, it was also assigned Indo Bhutan border.
  • In 2004, SSB received the President’s Colours in recognition of the keystone role in national security, since its inception.
Source- The Hindu

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