The Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, where Indian Police Service (IPS) officers are trained, has got its first woman chief in its 65-year-old history. The Union home ministry on Tuesday appointed Aruna Bahuguna, a 1979 batch IPS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre, as NPA director.
The NPA director is an IPS officer of the rank of director-general. The director’s post fell vacant in November after the incumbent, Subhas Goswami, was posted as the chief of ITBP. In December, NPA joint director T K Vinod Kumar was given the additional charge of director. The appointments committee of the Cabinet, headed by PM Manmohan Singh, recently issued orders for the NPA director’s appointment.
Bahuguna is currently the special director-general of the CRPF, second only to the chief of the country’s largest paramilitary force in hierarchy.
She is also the first woman to be posted as an SDG in the three-lakh strong CRPF, which is the nodal agency for anti-Naxal operations. She retires in February 2017.
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