New Delhi:
The Central Industrial Safety Power (CISF), which gives safety cowl to the Delhi Metro and airports throughout the nation, has acquired its first lady chief.
Nina Singh, a 1989-batch IPS officer of Rajasthan cadre, has grow to be the primary lady to be elevated to the submit of Director Normal of CISF. Previous to this, she was the Director Normal of Civil Rights and Anti-Human Trafficking Cell.
Her achievements additionally embody changing into the primary lady to carry the highest police submit in Rajasthan. Six officers are within the Director Normal rank within the state police pressure.
She has co-authored two analysis papers with Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo. She additionally labored on a undertaking for the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how in 2005-2006 to make police stations extra approachable.
Throughout her six-year stint with the CBI, she oversaw high-profile circumstances such because the Sheena Bora homicide case and the Jiah Khan suicide case.
In 2000, as a member secretary for the State Ladies’s Fee, she designed an outreach programme beneath which members of the fee would go to districts to carry hearings for girls in misery.
Ms Singh, who holds a Grasp’s diploma in Public Administration from Harvard College, was awarded the Ati Utkrisht Seva Medal for skilled excellence in 2020.
Her husband Rohit Kumar Singh is an Indian Administrative Service officer, presently posted because the Secretary of Union shopper affairs ministry.
The CISF with a 1.76 lakh-personnel robust central armed police pressure is remitted to protect the Delhi Metro, civil airports, and delicate installations within the aerospace and nuclear area.
