Subhas Goswami takes over as ITBP chief

Senior IPS officer Subhas Goswami today took charge as new Director General of paramilitary Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) which guards the sensitive frontier with China.
Goswami, a 1977-batch police officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre, is the 30th chief of the border guarding force which was raised in the face of the 1962 Chinese aggression.
He took charge from officiating Additional DG of the force Mahboob Alam after taking the ceremonial salute from the inspection squad at the force headquarters here.
Goswami was till now serving as the Director of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad, the alma mater of IPS officers in the country.

He has also served for seven years in the CRPF between 2001-2008.
The officer would head the force till December 2014. The top post of the paramilitary remained vacant for over two months after the last incumbent, Ajay Chadha, retired on August 30.

The ITBP guards the 3,488 km long Sino-Indian frontier and the role of its troopers was highlighted recently when they rendered relief and rescue duties in the aftermath of the Uttarakhand floods and rains.
Fifteen of its personnel were also killed in a chopper crash during the same operations in the rain ravaged state.
The force, apart from border guarding duties, is deployed for a variety of functions in anti-Naxal operations, VIP security and other internal security tasks.