Neo-Naxal Challenge: Issue & Options

Giridhari Nayak is an I.P.S. officer of 1983 RR batch, presently Additional Director General of Chhattisgarh cadre. He served as Superintendent of Police in six districts of Madhya Pradesh and as Commandant of M.P.S.A.F. in Assam & Tripura. As S.P., he has the distinction of handling successfully maximum communally sensitive districts in M.P. from 1989 to 1993. He also served as D.I.G./I.G. of naxal-infested Bastar Range. He is a Commando and crack shot; he was a member of M.P. Rifle shooting and Revolver shooting team. He did a stint in S.V.P. National Police Academy, Hyderabad as Deputy Director looking after senior course training & administration. He authored the book‘ Professionalism among Constabulary’.

He had led the relief team of National Police Academy to the super cyclone hit areas of Orissa in 1999 and earthquake hit Bhuj area of Gujarat in 2001. In various capacities in Chhattisgarh and erstwhile M.P. he dealt with LWE problem for more than a decade.

He received both Indian Police Medal for Meritorious service & Present’s Police Medal for Distinguished service.