Shri Satya Narayan Pradhan IPS (Jharkhand 1988) presently Director General- National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), has been given additional charge of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) from Shri Rakesh Asthana
Prior to this he served as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (MDoNER) from August, 2016 to January, 2019. In MDoNER inter alia he piloted the innovative programme called Science & Technology Interventions in the North Eastern Region (STINER). Shri Pradhan is a Post Graduate in Political Science from Hyderabad University, and did his M.Phil in International Relations from J.N.U. He was awarded the prestigious Chevening Fellowship of the British Council under which he acquired the degree of LLM with distinction in International Human Rights law from University of Essex, UK.
Shri Pradhan worked as Superintendent of Police in various districts of Bihar , before joining as Assistant Director at the Sardar Vallabbhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad where he trained 6 batches of IPS officers as Assistant Director as well as Deputy Director.