New Delhi:29/7/21: The Director General (DG) of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Satya Narayan Pradhan on Thursday assumed the additional charge as DG of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).
Pradhan took the charge from Rakesh Asthana who took charge as Delhi Police Commissioner today. The senior IPS officer from Odisha was born in Patna, Bihar. He has served as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Development, Northeast India. Satya Narayan Pradhan, who served as Bihar’s police chief, was awarded the Presidential Police Service Medal in 2012.
Pradhan is currently working as the DG of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).
The 1988-batch Jharkhand-cadre IPS officer earlier worked as the Additional Director General (ADGP) in the Government of India and the Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region, GOI.