Ex-DGP TR Kalra passes away

Excelsior Correspondent
dgpJAMMU, Sept 4: J&K’s first IPS officer and Former Director General of Police (DGP) TR Kalra passed away today morning. He is survived by his wife Veena Kalra and sons Ranjeet Kalra and Iqbal Kalra.
An officer of the 1962 batch of the J&K cadre, Kalra started his career as ASP Jammu and later held positions of ASP Srinagar, District Police Chief of Rajouri, Poonch, Jammu, AIG Headquarters and Principal Police Training School Udhampur.
While on deputation in the Centre, Kalra served in the Bureau of Police Research (BPRND) and Center Bureau of Investigation (CBI). He also worked on the important desk of Director Internal Security in the Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi.
On his repatriation to the State, he served as Commandant of Battalion of the Armed Police and later officiated as DIG Kashmir Zone before being posted as DIG of Police Jammu Province.
He was the Founder Director of the Police Training College Udhampur where he later laid the foundation of the Sher-e-Kashmir Police Training Academy. Kalra also served as IGP Prisons, Transport Commissioner and Headquarters and was promoted as Director General of Police (DGP) during the peak of militancy in the year 1991.
Kalra was credited with heading a Traffic Task Force and was instrumental in drafting the new Arms Act of Union of India. He was an admirer of literature and had deep interest in Urdu poetry and history.
Kalra, a double MA in History and Economic also held mastery on the history of North-West Frontier of India and had published many papers on the subject.
Kalra was also a National Level Volleyball player and also remained President of the J&K Olympic Association and the J&K Swimming Association.
Former DGP was cremated today with State honours and gun salute in the evening at Channi Himmat cremation ground, wherein people from all walks of life took part. Former DGPs MM Khajuria, Ashok Bhan and Kuldeep Khoda, Former Chief Secretaries BR Kundal and Vijay Bakaya, ADGPs Masood Choudhary and Madan Lal, IGPs Danesh Rana, Rajesh Kumar and Shaquat Watali, Vice Chancellor Jammu University Prof RD Sharma, Ex-Ministers RS Chib and Raman Bhalla, DC Jammu Simrandeep Singh, SSP Jammu Dr Sunil Kumar, people from the business and sporting community were among scores of people who had assembled to pay their last respects to TR Kalra.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, Advisor to Chief Minister Prof Amitabh Mattoo and DGP J&K K Rajendra Kumar have condoled the demise of TR Kalra, Former DGP.

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