Retired director general of BSF Pankaj Kumar Singh appointed deputy NSA
New Delhi, Nov 30 (ANI): Director General of Border Security Force( BSF) Pankaj Kumar Singh addresses the media on Annual Press Meet 2022 prior to the BSF Day at BSF Aswini Officers Institute, in New Delhi on Wednesday. (ANI Photo)
NEW DELHI: Retired director general of the Border Security Force (BSF) Pankaj Kumar Singh was on Monday appointed as deputy national security adviser.
According to an official order, Singh, a 1988-batch IPS officer of the Rajasthan cadre, has been appointed on a re-employment contract for a period of two years.
Singh retired as BSF chief on December 31, 2022
When Singh took charge of the BSF on August 31, 2021, he had created history of a son and a father holding the top post of a paramilitary force during their services.
His father and retired IPS officer of the 1959-batch, Prakash Singh, had also headed the BSF from June, 1993 to January, 1994.
Prakash Singh is considered an architect of police reforms in the country.
He had petitioned the Supreme Court in 1996 for carrying out reforms in the police establishment following which the government started giving a fixed tenure of two years at least to the chief of the Intelligence Bureau, the CBI, foreign secretary, the RAW chief and the Union home secretary.
Source: Press Trust of India
