Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 7: Senior IPS officer, Devendra Kumar Pathak today took over the charge of Director General of the country’s largest border guarding force, BSF.
Pathak, a 1979-batch officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, was till now posted as the Special DG of the 2.5-lakh personnel strong force here and was also officiating as the DG for some time.
Before coming to BSF, Pathak had served in another paramilitary CRPF as its chief of operations in J&K and he has also spent stints in various positions in his cadre States of Assam and Meghalaya.
Subsequently, he served in Oil India Ltd, New Delhi, as Chief Vigilance Officer, in CRPF as Inspector General, Srinagar, IG SAF/COBRA Sector, IG (Pers) CRPF HQ, Additional Director General (Trg), Additional Director General (HQ) and Special Director General, CRPF, J&K Zone and thereafter joined as Special Director General in BSF.
Since, March 1, 2014, Pathak was holding the additional charge of Director General, BSF.
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