Naxals pose biggest challenge: New CRPF DG

August 17, 2013 19:16

The CRPF faces its biggest challenge in Naxal areas and it will focus on minimising troop casualities as it takes on the left-wing extremists, the new chief of the country's largest paramilitary said today.

Senior IPS officer Dilip Trivedi today took over as the director general of the force, which is in the thick of action against Maoists in various parts of the country.

Trivedi, a 1978-batch IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, was till now serving as the Special DG of the BSF at its headquarters.

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