Kolkata, May 25 (PTI) Rupak Kumar Dutta, former director general of police of Karnataka and a special director of CBI, as an adviser to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on security and law and order, including in the border areas, according to an official notification on Thursday.

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Governor C V Ananda Bose gave his nod to the appointment on Thursday, a Raj Bhavan communication said.

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Dutta, a 1981-batch IPS officer and currently working as an advisor in the West Bengal home department, will be in the post for two years, it added.

The Mamata Banerjee government had last month assigned to him the responsibility of handling police welfare -- police housing, healthcare and retirement benefits.

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