<p>Pankaj Kumar Singh, a 1988-batch Indian Police Service officer, was on Wednesday appointed as director-general of the country's largest border guarding force BSF.</p>.<p>Singh is a Rajasthan cadre officer and is presently serving as the special director general (DG) of the force that guards over 6,300 km of the Indian fronts with Pakistan and Bangladesh.</p>.<p>He will take charge on August 31 after the retirement of IPS officer and ITBP DG S S Deswal, who is holding additional charge of the BSF DG after the tenure of Gujarat cadre officer Rakesh Asthana ended in July.</p>.<p>Singh's father and retired IPS officer Prakash Singh also headed the Border Security Force (BSF) as its DG in the past.</p>.<p>The BSF is about 2.65 lakh personnel in strength.</p>.<p>The government also appointed 1988-batch IPS officers Sanjay Arora (Tamil Nadu cadre) and Balaji Srivastav (AGMUT cadre) as the new heads of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD), a government think tank on police subjects.</p>.<p><strong>Check out DH's latest videos:</strong></p>
<p>Pankaj Kumar Singh, a 1988-batch Indian Police Service officer, was on Wednesday appointed as director-general of the country's largest border guarding force BSF.</p>.<p>Singh is a Rajasthan cadre officer and is presently serving as the special director general (DG) of the force that guards over 6,300 km of the Indian fronts with Pakistan and Bangladesh.</p>.<p>He will take charge on August 31 after the retirement of IPS officer and ITBP DG S S Deswal, who is holding additional charge of the BSF DG after the tenure of Gujarat cadre officer Rakesh Asthana ended in July.</p>.<p>Singh's father and retired IPS officer Prakash Singh also headed the Border Security Force (BSF) as its DG in the past.</p>.<p>The BSF is about 2.65 lakh personnel in strength.</p>.<p>The government also appointed 1988-batch IPS officers Sanjay Arora (Tamil Nadu cadre) and Balaji Srivastav (AGMUT cadre) as the new heads of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD), a government think tank on police subjects.</p>.<p><strong>Check out DH's latest videos:</strong></p>