CISF gets new Director General

Serving as the Director General of National Disaster Response Force and Civil Defenc,Rajiv took over as the Director General of the Central Industrial Security Force CISF on Tuesday. A 1975-batch Uttar Pradesh cadre IPS officer,Rajiv took over from outgoing Director General N R Das at the CISF headquarters in Delhi.

Rajiv served as SP and SSP in various UP districts from 1983 to 1991. In 1997,Rajiv was appointed as DIG/Intelligence,UP.

From 1997 to 2004,Rajiv was IG at Gorakhpur,Bareilli Zones,PTC Moradabad and IG/Vigilance,UP. He later came on central deputation as the Central Vigilance Officer at the Food Corporation of India. In 2010,Rajiv was appointed as DG NDRF on May 14,2010.