Border Security Force (BSF) Chief Director General Nitin Agarwal and his Assistant Special Director General (West) YB Khurania have been sacked by the central government of the country. Both of them have been sent back to their respective state cadres.
On Friday, the central government of India took an “unprecedented” decision to remove the two men from the BSF, media outlet NDTV reported.
Nitin Aggarwal is a 1989 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of Kerala cadre. He served as the 31st Director General of Border Security Force of India from June 12 last year. On the other hand YB Khurania Odisha 1990 batch officer.
Agarwal was appointed as the BSF chief by the government in June last year. His aide Khurania was serving as the commander of BSF personnel deployed along the Pakistan border.
India’s Cabinet of Ministers’ Appointments Committee said the two had been sacked “before completing their terms from this moment”.
According to a source, there are frequent incidents of infiltration into India through the international border. Due to this, the central government has taken a tough decision to depose them. The BSF chief has been accused of lacking coordination ability on important issues.
India’s border force BSF has 265,000 personnel. These members of BSF are deployed on the border of Pakistan on the western border with India and Bangladesh on the eastern side.
Source: NDTV
