Nina Singh Takes Helm As 1st Woman Chief Of CISF, Anish Dayal Assumes CRPF Leadership

Nina Singh was named Director General of CISF by the Center on Thursday. She is the first woman to lead this special force. The Center has also named Anish Dayal Singh, the head of the ITBP, as the director general of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).

“Nina Singh has been named DG of the CISF.” Singh is a Rajasthan-trained IPS officer from the 1989 batch and is now the Special DG of the CISF. “She has been given the job until her retirement on July 31, 2024,” the order said.

Nina Singh was the first woman to be assigned as an IPS officer to the Rajasthan branch. She had many important jobs to do all over the state. She was also a Joint Director at the CBI from 2013 to 2018, where she was in charge of many high-profile cases that had effects on the country and the world.

Since 2021, she has worked for the CISF, first as an ADG and then as a Special DG. Since August 31, 2023, she has been the DG in charge. She was born in Bihar and went to school at Harvard University, JNU, and the Patna Women’s College. She is married to Rohit Kumar Singh, who is also an IAS officer and is currently working as the Secretary for Consumer Affairs in the Central government.

The extra charge of the CRPF was being held by Anish Dayal Singh, a 1988-batch Manipur-cadre IPS officer, after S L Thaosen retired on November 30.

“Hire of Anish Dayal Singh, who is currently working as DG, ITBP, from the date he starts the job until December 31, 2024, or until further orders are issued, whichever comes first,” the order read.

Singh is in charge of the group that the Home Ministry set up to look into what happened with the security at Parliament on December 13.

Singh worked for the Intelligence Bureau (IB) before he joined the ITBP.

As of now, Rahul Rasgotra is a special director in the IB. He will take over as head of the ITBP from Singh. Rashotra, an IPS officer from the Manipur cadre who graduated in 1989, was given the job until September 30, 2025, which was his last day of work, the order said.

He had worked for the IB before in Jammu and Kashmir and helped change the multi-agency center (MAC), which is a shared grid for fighting terrorism after the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai.

Vivek Srivastava, an IPS officer from the Gujarat group who was born in 1989, will be in charge of the Fire Service, Civil Defense, and Home Guards. The order said that he would stayed in the job until June 30, 2025, which was his last day of work. The job that Srivastava has now is that of special director at IB. He helped with the operation that caught Yaseen Bhatkal, who was one of the founders of the Indian Mujahideen (IM).