"The government will soon appoint a full time DG for the CRPF soon," the officer added.
In the first week of April, 168 recruits of the force suffered food poisoning at their camp in Pallipuram in Kerala and had to be hospitalised.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh had taken strong exception of the incident and also convened a meeting of all paramilitary chiefs asking them to keep a check on such instances.
"It is always good to have a full-time chief who is empowered to take confident policy decisions. It is surprising to see that the 3-lakh personnel force, which is also the largest paramilitary across the globe, is kept headless and without a regular DG for well about two months," another officer said.
The CRPF, meanwhile, claimed that a 'considerable' number of Maoists are believed to have been killed in retaliatory action by CRPF men after the attack on them, though no bodies have yet been recovered.