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The National Security Council (NSC) (IAST: Rāṣṭrīya Surakṣā Pariṣada) of India is an executive government agency tasked with advising the Prime Minister's Office on matters of national security and strategic interest. It was established by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government on 19

November 1998, with Brajesh Mishra as the first National Security Advisor. Prior to the formation of the NSC, these activities were overseen by the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister.

National Security Council (India) Rāṣṭrīya Surakṣā Pariṣada of India

Emblem of India Agency overview Formed

19 November 1998

Jurisdiction

Government of India

Headquarters

National Security Council Secretariat, Sardar Patel Bhawan, Sansad Marg, New Delhi[1]

Employees

Classified

Agency executives

Ajit Doval, National Security Adviser

Rajinder Khanna [2], Deputy National Security Advisor Pankaj Saran[3], Deputy National Security Advisor RN Ravi[4], Deputy National Security Advisor Lt. General VG Khandare[5], Military Advisor

Members Besides the National Security Advisor (NSA), The Deputy National Security

Advisor (DNSA), The Ministers of Defence, External Affairs, Home, Finance of the Government of India, and the Deputy Chairman of the NITI Aayog are members of the National Security Council. Other members may be invited to attend its monthly meetings, as and when required.

Organisational structure The NSC is the apex body of the threetiered structure of the national security management system in India. The other two tiers are the Strategic Policy Group, and the National Security Advisory Board.[6]

Strategic Policy Group The Strategic Policy Group is the first level of the three tier structure of the National Security Council. It forms the nucleus of the decision-making apparatus of the NSC. Earlier, Cabinet Secretary was its chairman, but now National Security Advisor is the chairman of the group and it consists of the following members: Cabinet Secretary (Pradeep Kumar Sinha, IAS) Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) (Shaktikant Das)

Foreign Secretary (Dr. Vijay Keshav Gokhale, IFS) Defence Secretary (Sanjay Mitra, IAS) Home Secretary (Rajiv Gauba, IAS) Finance Secretary and Secretary (Revenue) (Dr. Hasmukh Adhia, IAS) Secretary (R) (i.e. the head of the Research and Analysis Wing) (Anil Kumar Dhasmana, IPS) Chief of the Army Staff (General Bipin Rawat, UYSM, AVSM, YSM, SM, VSM) Chief of the Naval Staff (Admiral Sunil Lamba, PVSM, AVSM, ADC) Chief of Air Staff (Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa, PVSM, AVSM,

YSM, VM, ADC) Chairperson, Central Board of Direct Taxes (Sushil Chandra, IRS-IT) Secretary (Defence Production) (Dr. Ajay Kumar, IAS) Secretary (Atomic Energy) (Dr. Sekar Basu) Secretary (Department of Space) and exofficio Chairman, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) (Dr. K. Sivan[7]) Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) (R. N. Ravi, IPS) Director of the Intelligence Bureau (Rajiv Jain, IPS)

Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister (Dr. G. Sateesh Reddy) Director-General of Defence Intelligence Agency(LT Gen AS Bedi) The Strategic Policy Group undertakes the Strategic Defence Review, a blueprint of short and long term security threats, as well as possible policy options on a priority basis.

National Security Advisory Board The brainchild of the first National Security Advisor(NSA), Brajesh Mishra, a former member of Indian Foreign Service. The

National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) consists of a group of eminent national security experts outside of the government.[8] Members are usually senior retired officials, civilian as well as military, academics and distinguished members of civil society drawn from and having expertise in Internal and External Security, Foreign Affairs, Defence, Science & Technology and Economic Affairs. The first NSAB, constituted in December 1998, headed by the late K. Subrahmanyam produced a draft Nuclear Doctrine for the country in 2001, a

Strategic Defence Review in 2002 and a National Security Review in 2007.[9] The board meets at least once a month, and more frequently as required. It provides a long-term prognosis and analysis to the NSC and recommends solutions and address policy issues referred to it. Initially the Board was constituted for one year, but since 200406, the Board has been reconstituted for two years. [10] The tenure of the previous NSAB, headed by former Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran,

ended in January 2015. It had 14 members. The new board has been re-constituted in July 2018, with P S Raghavan, former Indian Ambassador to Russia(2014-16), as its head. It has a tenure of two years.[9]

Joint Intelligence Committee The Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) of the Government of India analyses intelligence data from the Intelligence Bureau, Research and Analysis Wing and the Directorates of Military, Naval and Air Intelligence. The JIC has its own

Secretariat that works under the Cabinet Secretariat.

See also Cabinet Committee on Security List of Indian Intelligence agencies

References 1. "Contact Us" . National Security Advisory Board. Archived from the original on 27 February 2017. 2. "India's revamped security set-up gets IPS, intelligence influx" . 2018-01-05. 3. https://web.archive.org/web/20180530053

009/https://www.news18.com/news/india/ with-former-diplomat-pankaj-saran-asdeputy-nsa-goes-beyond-just-strategy1763525.html 4. https://www.hindustantimes.com/indianews/centre-s-naga-talks-interlocutor-rnravi-becomes-deputy-national-securityadvisor/storyhZGPfqryioWMZKcmaDdxhJ.html 5. http://www.sakaltimes.com/pune/lt-genkhandare-appointed-advisor-nscs-26248 6. "About NSAB" . National Security Advisory Board. Archived from the original on 16 April 2017.

7. "Rocket expert K. Sivan new Space Secretary" . The Hindu. Special Correspondent. 2018-01-10. ISSN 0971751X . Retrieved 2018-01-29. 8. Gupta, Arvind. "Brajesh Mishra's Legacy to National Security and Diplomacy" . Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses. Retrieved 21 April 2018. 9. "National Security Advisory Board reconstituted with ex-envoy to Russia Raghavan as head" . The Economic Times. 2018-07-13. Retrieved 2018-09-08. 10. "National Security Advisory Board" . 2017-04-16. Retrieved 2018-09-08.

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