Implement professional protocol for higher postings in border-guarding CAPFs

A BSF patrol near an international border fencing. (File photo for representation.)“Leadership is the process of influencing people by providing them with purpose, direction, and motivation while you are operating to accomplish a mission and im...

High time government empowers BSF cadre officers lead the force at highest level

Border Security Force troops present guard of honour to Sujoy Lal Thaosen, an IPS officer, after he assumed the post of the director general of the force. (Photo: BSF)The need for a professional border-guarding force for the eastern and western borde...

Efficiency of CAPFs suffering from ‘glass ceiling’ effect

CRPF jawans in an anti-Maoist operation in West Bengal.The Indian Express carried an op-ed by Mutha Ashok Jain, on September 9, titled “Practice of reserving cadre posts for certain services is exclusionary, must be reconsidered” made for...

Kargil War: Unrecognized contribution of BSF

July 26 is celebrated as Kargil Vijay Diwas. However, circumstances that led to this Kargil war and brought two nuclear-armed neighbours to the precipice remain mired in mystery. Were the intelligence agencies not able to convert the information avai...

IPS officers vs CAPF officers: Unseemly tug of war

BSF marching contingent at Republic Day parade in New Delhi. (Representative photo)The efforts of Indian Police Service to retain their hegemony over the senior posts in central armed police forces (CAPFs) is like the events leading to the epic battl...