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Having spent over three decades in uniform — first as a young officer learning the ropes of border policing in the unforgiving heights of the Indo-Tibetan frontier with the ITBP, and later steering the Odisha Police as its DGP during some of the most challenging years of Left Wing Extremism — I have seen the CAPFs from both sides of the fence.
I have commanded men in snow-bound outposts, co-ordinated joint operations with CRPF and BSF in Maoist-affected districts, and felt the pulse of jawans who risk their lives daily so that the rest of India can sleep peacefully.
That is why, when the Union Cabinet cleared the Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Bill 2026 earlier this month, I viewed it not as a politic...
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