MESSAGE FROM DIRECTOR GENERAL
SHRI RAMAN SRIVASTAVA,IPS
On my assuming the office of DG BSF, I convey my Best Wishes to all the members of the Force and their families.
2. I feel glad coming back to my old organization. I feel proud, privileged and grateful that I have been chosen to serve with you at the top, with a surging satisfaction that, at the pinnacle of my career, I am going to serve in the largest Paramilitary Force in the world. I return to you older, but with more experience, and without loss of valour, with better wisdom to accomplish our chief mission without any diminishment of initiative, and stronger determination to contribute to our better development in the coming days.
3. The BSF was born, out of crisis - in response to a hostile attack on our border. In that sense it is a child of crisis. However, since then, it has grown to become a frontline crisis manager. The price of the freedom of our countrymen has been high, sometimes, very high, and you from the BSF have paid it- with your toils, sweat and blood, and your bereaved families have paid it with tears – for the last forty-four years. In addition to being a veteran of border security, the BSF is a frontline Counter-Insurgency Force, and has contributed to taming virulent insurgencies in different parts of India. Today, the chief business of the BSF is Border Security and Counter-Insurgency and my chief business as your chief is to make you the best in this in the world.
4. I look forward to all senior officers in functional and administrative positions to always be tender in welfare matters, and firm in operational matters. While there is no room for malingerers and cowards in the BSF, room must always be made available for our overworked, overstressed and under-recognized performers.
5. I expect all senior officers in administrative and functional positions to ensure that they respond with equal promptitude to welfare-oriented requests/suggestions from all their subordinates-senior and junior officers, without distinction. It is the least that we can do to ensure that we continue to remain a successful family.
6. We live in the age of technology. As technology becomes more common, criminals and elements hostile to our country use it to further their ends faster. We must incorporate technology at a rate faster than the enemies of public order do. This is a minimal organizational imperative. I request senior officers to come up with plans for the continuous incorporation of the latest technology and developments into our Force in a strategic and tactical manner.
7. Although I am a philosophical man, the realities of life as a law enforcement professional for 36 years have made me a practical leader: I refuse to believe in an ill fate that would fall on us, no matter what we did; I believe in a fate that would befall us, if we did nothing !
Jai Hind !
(RAMAN SRIVASTAVA)
DIRECTOR GENERAL
BORDER SECURITY FORCE