The Central authorities at this time ordered quick elimination of BSF Director Normal (DG) Nitin Agrawal and his deputy, Particular DG (West) Y B Khurania, returning them to their respective state cadres with quick impact, in response to a authorities order. The BSF, a pressure of roughly 2.65 lakh personnel, is chargeable for guarding India’s borders with Pakistan within the west and Bangladesh within the east. The motion comes amid sudden enhance in terror assaults in Jammu and Kashmir.
Agrawal, a 1989-batch Kerala cadre officer, had taken cost because the Border Safety Power chief in June of final 12 months. Khurania, a 1990-batch Odisha cadre officer, was main the pressure’s operations alongside the Pakistan border as Particular DG (West). Separate orders from the Appointments Committee of the Cupboard (ACC) acknowledged that each officers have been being “prematurely” repatriated with “quick impact.”
Troop Deployment In J&Ok
With a surge in terror assaults, the Centre has elevated deployment of forces within the Union Territory. Two battalions of Border Safety Power (BSF) troops, totaling 2,000 personnel, have been airlifted from Odisha and deployed in Kashmir. A complete of 1,500 elite Assam Rifles troops might be deployed underneath the operational management of the Military, with their main mission being to ‘safe peaks and higher reaches’ in Kashmir.
Para-Commandos Deployed
The Military can also be redeploying forces to counteract battle-hardened terrorists of overseas origin. Estimates counsel that round 80 of those terrorists are working in small teams within the higher reaches of the Pir Panjal vary. In response to current threats, the federal government has permitted the deployment of 200 armor-protected autos (APVs). This determination follows a lethal assault on July 5 in Kathua district, the place a army convoy was focused, ensuing within the deaths of 5 troopers and accidents to 5 others.
