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India’s revamped security set-up gets IPS, intelligence influx
The recent appointment of Rajinder Khanna, a former chief of the country’s external intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), as Deputy National Security Advisor reflects the march of specialists, especially those from the Indian Police Service in the country’s national security establishment, which has, over the past two years, grown in significance, been given more resources, and now occupies a significant part of Sardar Patel Bhavan in the heart of the national capital.
The appointment of Khanna, considered a specialist on Bangladesh, Myanmar and Pakistan is a break from the precedent of making a diplomat the deputy NSA, if the NSA is from the IPS.
Still, his appointment is in keeping with the direction the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) has taken under NSA Ajit Doval who has surrounded himself with specialists, mostly with a background in the IPS.
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