NEW DELHI: Senior IPS officer R K Pachnanda took charge as the chief of the Indo-China border guarding force ITBP today.
Pachnanda, a 1983-batch police officer of the West Bengal cadre, was handed over the baton of the about 90,000-personnel strong, mountain warfare-trained force by outgoing Director General Krishna Chaudhary.
The Indian Police Service (IPS) officer will head the paramilitary force, raised in 1962, for over a year till he retires in October next year.
Pachnanda comes to the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) with the rare distinction of serving in all the major central paramilitary forces and organisations including the CRPF, the CISF, the BSF, the Special Protection Group (SPG), the CBI and the NDRF.
Prior to his appointment as the ITBP chief, he was serving as the DG of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).
He will also hold the charge of the NDRF DG as the Government has not appointed his successor till now. (AGENCIES)
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