{"id":5296,"date":"2022-12-30T11:47:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T06:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5296"},"modified":"2025-03-27T05:29:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T23:59:04","slug":"prahari-app-for-bsf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/prahari-app-for-bsf\/","title":{"rendered":"Prahari App for BSF"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why in news?\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0BSF \u2018Prahari\u2019 app is a great example of Proactive Governance. Now Jawans can get personal and service-related information, housing, Ayushman-CAPF and leave related information on their mobile.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Other features of the app include:\n<ul>\n<li>Availability of Bio Data<\/li>\n<li>Grievance redressal on \u201cCentralized Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System\u201d (CP-GRAMS)<\/li>\n<li>information on various welfare schemes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The app will also connect the Jawans with the portal of the Ministry of Home Affairs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Border Security Force (BSF)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is India&#8217;s border guarding organisation on its border with <strong>Pakistan and Bangladesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is one of the seven <strong>Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF)<\/strong> of India, and was raised in the wake of the 1965 war on 1 December 1965.<\/li>\n<li>It comes under the <strong>Ministry of Home Affairs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>BSF contributes its personnel every year for UN Missions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the main duty of BSF?<\/h3>\n<p>The main duty of BSP is to prevent trans-border crimes, unauthorized entry into or exit from the territory of India, prevent smuggling and any other illegal activity and promote a sense of security among the people living in the border areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Q2) Who is the current director general of BSF?<\/h3>\n<p>CRPF Director-General Sujoy Lal Thaosen took the \u201cadditional\u201d charge of the Border Security Force (BSF) following the retirement of incumbent Pankaj Kumar Singh.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1887346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Union Home and Cooperation Minister Shri Amit Shah launched the Border Security Force (BSF) mobile app \u2018Prahari\u2019 and revised version of 13 manuals in New Delhi<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exemplifying proactive governance, Prahari app launched to bring ease and convenience for BSF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}