IPS Charu Sinha becomes the first woman commander to head the Central Reserve Police Force formation in militancy-affected Srinagar of Jammu and Kashmir.
Charu Sinha is a Telangana-cadre officer of the 1996 batch. Earlier, her service as a CRPF inspector general in the Bihar sector was applauded by the force as she had successfully conducted several anti-Naxal operations in the state.
On Monday, she was appointed as the IG of the Srinagar.
“When I joined the force, it was difficult in the male-dominated field. Media always wanted to know where I go, whom I meet and so on. It was almost as if I didn’t have a personal life,” she said. “But things gradually changed,” she had told Deccan Chronicle in an interview in 2017.
CRPF’s Srinagar sector consists of three districts of Jammu and Kashmir, Budgam, Ganderbal and Srinagar and the Union Territory of Ladakh. There are 2 ranges, 22 executive units and three women companies in this sector. Apart from this, Srinagar sector also has administrative control over the Group Center – Srinagar.
On 5 August, Article 370, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, ended. The Union Government last year introduced a proposal to remove Article 370 of the Constitution in the Rajya Sabha. Jammu and Kashmir divided into two parts. In this, Jammu Kashmir will be a union territory, while Ladakh will be the second union territory.
