Sashastra Seema Bal
| Sashastra Seema Bal | |
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| Abbreviation | SSB |
Emblem/Logo of the Sashastra Seema Bal
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| Motto | Service, Security and Brotherhood |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1963 |
| Annual budget | ₹4,320.67 crore (US$670 million) (2017-18) |
| Legal personality | Non government: Central Armed Police Force |
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| Federal agency | IN |
| Governing body | Ministry of Home Affairs (India) |
| Constituting instrument | Sashastra Seema Bal Act, 2007 |
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| Headquarters | New Delhi |
| Minister responsible | Rajnath Singh, Union Home Minister |
| Agency executive | Archana Ramasundram IPS, Director-General, SSB |
| Parent agency | Central Armed Police Forces |
| Website | |
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Sashastra Seema Bal or SSB, in English the Armed Border Force (rarely translated into English in Indian usage), is one of India's Central Armed Police Forces. It is currently under the administrative control of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Government of India. Prior to 2001, the force was known as the Special Service Bureau (SSB)
The Special Service Bureau (also abbreviated SSB) was set up in early 20 December 1963, following the Sino-Indian War. The primary task of the force was to provide armed support for the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India's foreign intelligence agency, with a secondary objective to inculcate feelings of national belonging in the border population and assist them in developing their capabilities for resistance through a continuous process of motivation, training, development, welfare programmes and activities in the then NEFA, North Assam (the northern areas of the Indian state of Assam), North Bengal (the northern areas of the Indian State of West Bengal) and the hills of Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Ladakh. The programme was later extended to Manipur, Tripura, Jammu in 1965; Meghalaya in 1975; Sikkim in 1976; the border areas of Rajasthan and Gujarat in 1989; Manipur, Mizoram and further areas of Rajasthan as well as Gujarat in 1988; South Bengal (the southern areas of West Bengal); Nagaland in 1989; and the Nubra Valley, Rajouri and the Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir in 1991.
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