Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)

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2016: Archana Ramasundaram appointed DG

The Times of India Feb 02 2016

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

TN IPS Officer To Head Sashastra Seema Bal

Archana Ramasundaram, a 1980-batch Tamil Nadu cadre IPS officer, has been appointed as director general of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), a para-military organisation that guards frontiers with Nepal and Bhutan.

She is the first woman IPS officer to head SSB since its inception in 1963 and will continue in that post till her retirement on September 30 next year. She has replaced B D Sharma, another officer from her batch, who retired on January 31.

There are five paramilitary forces ­ SSB, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF), Central Industrial Security Force and Indo Tibetan Border Police ­ and none has ever had a woman chief.

She was director of National Crime Records Bureau in New Delhi since June last year. The Union government had upgraded the post of director NCRB to that of director general of police (DGP) to accommodate her.

Ramasundaram, known among her colleagues as an upright official, is the seniormost IPS officer in Tamil Nadu cadre. Tamil Nadu DGP Ashok Kumar is two years junior to her. She hails from Ballia in Uttar Pradesh and is married to S Ramasundaram, a 1979 batch IAS officer from Tamil Nadu.