Senior IPS officer and CRPF Special Director General RC Tayal has been appointed as the new chief of the elite counter-terror force National Security Guard (NSG). The post fell vacant after incumbent chief J N Choudhury retired on May 31. RC Tayal is 1980-batch Assam-Meghalaya cadre officer and he is expected to serve as NSG DG till August 2016.

National Security Guard (NSG)

• The National Security Guard (NSG) is a security force of India constituted “for combating terrorist activities with a view to protect States against internal disturbances”.
• The personnel of NSG are known as Black Cats because of the black dress and black cat signage worn on its uniform.
• The NSG is under the authority Ministry of Home Affairs.
• The NSG was set up in 1984 as a Federal Contingency Deployment Force to tackle all facets of terrorism in the country.
• The SAG or Special Action Group is the main offensive or the strike wing of the NSG. Its members are drawn from the Indian army.
• The NSG was established in the wake of 1984 Operation Blue Star, and the high collateral damage to Golden Temple, and civilian and military collateral casualties.
• Those who successfully complete the tests are sent for nine months of advanced training NSG PHANTOM COMMANDOS.