Srinagar: Charu Sinha creates history, becomes first female IPS officer to be appointed as IG (Inspector General) of CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) in Srinagar.
She is the IPS officer of the 1996-Batch Telangana cadre and will now head Srinagar sector comprising of Srinagar, Ganderbal and Budgam districts in Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory. She will be heading all operations in this sector.
This is not the first time when she has been assigned such a tough task, earlier also, she had worked as IG, the Bihar sector in CRPF and has dealt with Naxals news agency ANI reported.
Under her leadership, various anti-Naxals operations were carried out.
Later, she was transferred to IG Jammu in CRPF where she spent a long and successful tenure. On Monday, a fresh order came appointing her as the IG Srinagar sector.
The situation of Srinagar-Jammu highway, the only road connecting Kashmir with rest of the States, witness frequent closure especially in the winter season, thus leaving the people of Kashmir to face hardships. However, during the closure of the road, the air ticket rates go up unprecedently while the prices of essentials in the markets too […]