Nina Singh, a 1989-batch IPS officer of Rajasthan cadre, has become the first woman chief of the Central Industrial Security Force that provides security to airports across India as well as the Delhi Metro. Currently working as special DG, she has been appointed to the new post till her superannuation on July 31, 2024.
Singh will hold charge as the director general of the CISF and, before this, she was the DG of civil rights and anti-human trafficking cell. Not only this, she also became the first woman to hold the top police post in Rajasthan out of six DG-rank officers in the state police force.
The senior IPS officer was incharge of high-profile cases — Sheena Bora murder and Jiah Khan suicide cases — during her six-year stint at the Central Bureau of Investigation. According to a report published by NDTV, she holds a masters degree in public administration from the esteemed Harvard University in the US. She was awarded the Ati Utkrisht Seva Medal for professional excellence in 2020, the report stated.
Her work is mainly centred around women in distress and accessibility. She has co-authored two research papers with Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo and has also worked on a project for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005-2006 to make police stations more approachable, NDTV said.
Singh designed an outreach programme for the state women’s commission in 2000, under which members would go from district to district to hold hearings for women in distress. She is married to IAS officer Rohit Kumar Singh, who is at present posted as the secretary of the consumer affairs ministry.
The central government has recently laid focus on giving women top jobs in the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF). Singh will command a 1.76 lakh-strong force, which guards the Delhi Metro, civil airports, as well as sensitive aerospace and nuclear installations.
(With PTI inputs)
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