{"id":303347,"date":"2018-09-28T05:37:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T05:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303347"},"modified":"2018-09-28T05:37:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T05:37:52","slug":"rajni-kant-misra-appointed-as-bsf-chief-s-s-deswal-to-head-sashastra-seema-bal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajni-kant-misra-appointed-as-bsf-chief-s-s-deswal-to-head-sashastra-seema-bal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajni Kant Misra appointed as BSF Chief, S S Deswal to head Sashastra Seema Bal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajni-kant-misra-appointed-as-bsf-chief-s-s-deswal-to-head-sashastra-seema-bal\/bsf-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-303348\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-303348 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/bsf-300x274.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/bsf-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/bsf-460x420.jpg 460w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/bsf.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a>According to an official order by Personnel Ministry Indian Police Service (IPS) officers Rajni Kant Misra and S S Deswal have been appointed as the Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Misra, a 1984-batch IPS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, is currently serving as the SSB chief.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Personnel Ministry order states that Misra been tasked to head the BSF for a period up to his superannuation on August 31, 2019 in place of K K Sharma, who will retire at the end of this month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Deswal, a 1984-batch IPS officer of the Haryana cadre, will head the SSB in place of Misra. He will hold the post for a period up to his superannuation on August 31, 2021, the order said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an official order by Personnel Ministry Indian Police Service (IPS) officers Rajni Kant Misra and S S Deswal have been appointed as the Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) respectively. Misra, a 1984-batch IPS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, is currently serving as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[301,5259,5260,5132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303350,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303347\/revisions\/303350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}