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Major reshuffle expected in Maharashtra Police leadership

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The State Home Department in Maharashtra is gearing up for a significant overhaul of its top police leadership, including the position of Director General of Police (DGP) and Police Commissioners of Nagpur and Thane. The impending retirement of the current DGP, Rajnish Seth, on December 31 has prompted the department to commence the process of selecting his successor.A top rank official said that several prominent names have emerged as contenders for the esteemed position of State DGP. The frontrunner is Senior IPS Officer Rashmi Shukla, who currently serves as the Director General (DG) of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar is also a strong candidate for the role. Other notable contenders include Thane CP Jaijeet Singh, DG ATS Sadanand Date, DG Police Housing Sandeep Bishnoi, DG Railway Pradnya Sarvade, Additional Director of NIA Atulchandra Kulkarni, and DG State Security Corporation Bipin Kumar Singh, he said. He further stated that the State Home
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Rat with mounted camera to help armed forces in intelligence gathering from enemy territory

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A rat with a mounted camera on his head would help Indian armed forces in Intelligence Surveillance and Recovery (ISR) operation by entering the enemy territory soon. Scientists of DRDO’s Young Scientist Laboratory (DYSL-AT) created intelligence-augmented rat cyborgs controlled via a wireless micro-stimulator. The Rat cyborgs are undergoing Phase-I trials at DRDOs’ laboratory, informed P Shiva Prasad, Director of DYSL-AT on Thursday.

P Shiva Prasad told mediapersons after the plenary session that the rat would be maneuried with electronic commands through semi-invasive brain electrodes. “This is the first time India has engaged in developing such technology,” he said, adding that some foreign countries already have the technology.

In Phase-I, the operator always gives commands for all the turns and the rite will go accordingly. In Phase-II, the scientist can actually feed an image to the camera. When the rat finds the image in the camera it will stay there. He gave an example of the 26/11 terrorist attack in which the army personnel were searching the 200 rooms of the Taj hotel. In such a scenario, the rat cyborgs would be helpful to the forces in search operation, he claimed.

Shiva Prasad further said, “Remote controlled robots can not climb the wall and some configurations are very bulky and they can not be sent through very narrowed pipes. Endurance will be the most important point in choosing the rat. The rat can go to the kitchen, eat food and resume the mission.”

When asked why only rats were chosen for the mission, he replied that the pleasure points which need to be rewarded to the rats through electrical pulses are very clear in the literature. So it is very easy to start with it. The electrical pulses are minute which actually brings some kind of excitement to them.

In Phase -I, the electrodes need to be implanted in the brain of the rats. “We are going for wireless transmission to the brain in Phase - II, so that same activity of exiting their neurons would happen through wireless transmission,” he stated, adding that three to four rats were used for lab leve prototype so far.


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