Devendra Kumar Pathak has been appointed the Border
Security Force Director General on 7th April, 2014 with immediate effect.
Pathak is an IPS officer of the 1979 batch of the Assam
The BSF is country’s largest border guarding force.
His name for the post of DG was approved by the
Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) headed by Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh.
Prior to the appointment of DG, he was posted as
the Special DG and was also officiating as the DG since March 1, 2014.
The post of the DG of BSF was vacant since February
28, 2014 when Subhash Joshi retired from the post of DG. Pathak had served in
another paramilitary CRPF as its chief of operations in Jammu
and Kashmir and he has also spent stints in various positions in
his cadre states of Assam
He has been appointed
till the date of his superannuation on February 29, 2016 or until further
orders, whichever takes place earlier.
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