CRPF DG to hold addional charge of ITBP

New Delhi: India-China border guarding force ITBP will have a temporary chief from the New Year as incumbent Director General Subhas Goswami retires on Wednesday. As a stop-gap arrangement, CRPF chief Prakash Mishra has been appointed by the government as the interim DG of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) force.[caption id=“attachment_194890” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] ITBP personnel. Reuters[/caption] Sources said a regular DG for the 50,000-personnel ITBP will be appointed soon after the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces the name of an IPS officer for the post. A home ministry statement today said Mishra will hold the additional charge of ITBP DG without elaborating on the duration of this arrangement. Goswami, a 1977-batch Assam-Meghalaya cadre IPS officer, will proceed on his superannuation tomorrow after heading the force for over an year. ITBP not only guards the 3,488km long Sino-India frontier, where incursions by Chinese troops have been reported often, but also renders a variety of internal security duties including conducting anti-Naxal operations in Chhattisgarh and recently in Maharashtra. As part of its foreign assignment, the mountain warfare trained force guards the Indian Embassy in Kabul. PTI