IAS Officer Usha Padhee First Woman DG Of Bureau of Civil Aviation Security
Usha Padhee, joint secretary in the Ministry of Civil Aviation, has been given additional charge as Director-General, Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS).
She is the first woman and third IAS officer to have been appointed to the post.
The 1996-batch Odisha cadre IAS officer took charge after IPS officer Rakesh Asthana was posted as director-general of the Border Security Force (BSF) on August 17.