1st IPS woman officer Archana Ramasundram appoints SSB DG to head paramilitary force
Author yuvamind
New Delhi: 58-years-old Archana Ramasundram has become the first woman to head a paramilitary force. The SSB is entrusted with guarding the country ' s frontiers with Nepal and Bhutan.
Senior IPS police officer Archana Ramasundram was on Monday appointed as the Director General of SSB . Ramasundram is currently the Director, National Crime Records Bureau.
There are five paramilitary forces—the SSB, Central Reserve Police Force , Border Security Force , Central Industrial Security Force and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police—and none has ever had a woman chief.
The Tamil Nadu cadre officer was in news in 2014 over her appointment as the Additional Director in the CBI. Her appointment was also challenged in the Supreme Court after which she was moved to the NCRB as its chief.
Besides her, IPS officers K Durga Prasad and KK Sharma have been appointed Director Generals of the CRPF and the BSF. They will take over after the officer chiefs of these forces retire at the end of this month.
Prasad, a 1981-batch IPS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre, was in 2014 unceremoniously removed as the chief of the Special Protection Group.