# Director General of the National Security Guard

Director General (DG) is the head of the Indian National Security Guard (NSG), the federal contingency deployment force that was created to deal with terrorism in India. The DG is selected by the Home Minister (MHA). In the first thirty-one years since its creation in 1984, the NSG has had twenty-eight DGs, with an average tenure of one year and few months. All the selected DGs have been officers from the Indian Police Service (IPS).
Director General of NSG(essentially from IPS) is equivalent in rank to a lieutenant general in the Army, an air marshal in the Air Force, or a vice admiral in the Navy, all three-star ranks.
The Director General is assisted, for administrative matters, by four IG Rank officers drawn from the Indian Police Service and also from the Indian Army of whom two are Inspectors General each for Administration and Headquarters (HQ) who in turn are assisted by Deputy Inspectors General. The Financial Advisor of the NSG has been an officer of the rank of Joint Secretary from one of the Central Accounts Services and also has Dy Advisors from these Central Accounts Services.

## List of Directors General

| S.No | Name | Cadre | Batch | Appointment Date | Left Office | Parent Service |
| 1 | R. T. Nagrani | Andhra Pradesh | 1951 | 17 August 1984 | 25 September 1986 | Indian Police Service |
| 2 | K. L. Watts | Uttar Pradesh | 1956 | 28 January 1987 | 31 December 1987 | Indian Police Service |
| 3 | V. P. Marwah | Union Territory | 1956 | 15 April 1988 | 15 April 1988 | Indian Police Service |
| 4 | S. Subramanian | Andhra Pradesh | 1958 | 14 May 1990 | 31 January 1992 | Indian Police Service |
| 5 | B. J. S. Sial | Uttar Pradesh | 1959 | 19 May 1992 | 31 July 1993 | Indian Police Service |
| 6 | A. K. Tandon | Gujarat | 1961 | 28 April 1994 | 19 March 1997 | Indian Police Service |
| 7 | R. D. Tyagi | Maharashtra | 1964 | 19 March 1997 | 31 October 1997 | Indian Police Service |
| 8 | T. R. Kakkar | Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram | 1964 | 6 May 1998 | 6 May 1998 | Indian Police Service |
| 9 | Nikhil Kumar | Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram | 1963 | 1 July 1999 | 31 July 2001 | Indian Police Service |
| 10 | Dr. R. Rajagopalan | Tamil Nadu | 1965 | 20 August 2001 | 12 January 2002 | Indian Police Service |
| 11 | Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary | Kerala | 1967 | 13 February 2002 | 7 February 2005 | Indian Police Service |
| 12 | A. K. Mitra | Uttar Pradesh | 1970 | 7 February 2005 | 27 February 2006 | Indian Police Service |
| 13 | Jyoti Krishan Dutt | West Bengal | 1971 | 11 August 2006 | 28 February 2009 | Indian Police Service |
| 14 | N. P. S. Aulakh | Punjab | 1972 | 28 February 2009 | 31 August 2010 | Indian Police Service |
| 15 | Rajan K. Medhekar | Kerala | 1975 | 1 September 2010 | 30 April 2012 | Indian Police Service |
| 16 | Subhash Joshi | Uttarakhand | 1976 | 3 May 2012 | 18 December 2012 | Indian Police Service |
| 17 | Arvind Ranjan | Kerala | 1977 | 18 December 2012 | 22 January 2014 | Indian Police Service |
| 18 | J. N. Choudhury | Assam-Meghalaya | 1978 | 22 January 2014 | 31 May 2015 | Indian Police Service |
| 19 | R. C. Tayal | Assam-Meghalaya | 1980 | 31 May 2015 | 22 September 2016 | Indian Police Service |
| 20 | Sudhir Pratap Singh | Rajasthan | 1983 | 23 September 2016 | 31 January 2018 | Indian Police Service |
| 21 | Sudeep Lakhtakia | Telangana | 1984 | 31 January 2018 | 18 October 2019 | Indian Police Service |
| 22 | Anup Kumar Singh | Gujarat | 1985 | 18 October 2019 | 30 September 2020 | Indian Police Service |
| 23 | M A Ganapathy | Uttarakhand | 1986 | 18 March 2021 | 29 February 2024 | Indian Police Service |
| 25 | Nalin Prabhat | Andhra Pradesh | 1992 | 1 May 2024 | 15 August 2024 | Indian Police Service |
| 26 | B.Srinivasan | Bihar | 1992 | 28 August 2024 | Incumbent | Indian Police Service |