Border Security Force
(BSF) appointed as the head of its Tekanpur-based
academy, the alma mater of the officers of the country’s largest
frontier-guarding force.
S S Chahar took over the charge of the academy’s
director — an Additional Director General (ADG) rank — a senior official
said.
He is the 13th officer of the cadre to have been
elevated to the second top post in the organisation in the history of over 50
years.
He served on both the western and eastern
frontiers of the country.
BSF guards the important Indian borders with
Pakistan and Bangladesh respectively.
Chahar, honours like the Vishisht Seva Medal
(VSM) and police medals for meritorious and distinguished services under his
belt/
About
BSF Academy
The BSF academy is located in Tekanpur in Madhya
Pradesh, near Gwalior.
It is also home to institutes of national
importance like the tear smoke unit (the only factory in the country to produce
tear smoke shells and similar ammunition) and the national training centre for
dogs.
The ADG rank is very rarely occupied by a BSF
officer as only one post is reserved for them and the rest four are taken by
Indian Police Service (IPS) officers, who join the central force on deputation.
The academy trains BSF officers who come to it
after clearing the UPSC exam and after graduating from it, they are posted as
assistant commandants.
The BSF has a strength of about 2.5 lakh
personnel and apart from rendering its primary task of guarding the Pakistan
and Bangladesh borders, it also conducts anti-Naxal operations and assists the
state police units in undertaking law-and-order and counter-insurgency duties.
