National Security Advisor (India)

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Script error: No such module "Sidebar". The National Security Advisor (NSA) is the senior official on the National Security Council of India, and the chief advisor to the Prime Minister of India on national security policy and international affairs. Ajit Doval is the current NSA, serving since May 2014. The NSA is assigned the rank of a Union Cabinet Minister[1] and ranks seventh in the Indian Order of Precedence.[2]

History

Brajesh Mishra, then Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, was appointed as the first National Security Advisor of India. The post was created on 19 November 1998 by then government headed by Atal Bihari Bajpayee.[3] In 2004, a new government headed by Manmohan Singh was formed at the centre. This government separated the office of NSA into foreign headed by former Foreign Secretary J.N. Dixit and internal headed by former Director, IB M.K. Narayanan.[4] After the death of Dixit in 2005, the office was again fused and Narayanan became the full-time NSA.[5] He was then succeeded by former Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon in 2010.[6] In 2014, following the election of Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister, Ajit Doval, former Director of the Intelligence Bureau, was appointed as the NSA.

Role

The post of the NSA has high vested powers, and as such it is a highly prominent and powerful office in the Government of India. All NSAs appointed since the inception of the post in 1998 belong to the either Indian Foreign Service or to the Indian Police Service, and serve at the discretion of the Prime Minister of India.

The National Security Advisor (NSA) is tasked with regularly advising the Prime Minister of India on all matters relating to internal and external threats and opportunities to India, and oversees strategic and sensitive issues on behalf of the Prime Minister. The NSA of India also serves as the Prime Minister's Special Interlocutor with China as well as the envoy to Pakistan and Israel on security affairs.

The NSA receives all intelligence (R&AW, IB, NTRO, MI, DIA, NIA) reports and co-ordinates them to present before the Prime Minister. NSA is assisted by the Deputy National Security Advisors (Deputy NSAs). Currently, retired IPS officer Dattatray Padsalgikar, former R&AW chief Rajinder Khanna and retired IFS officer Pankaj Saran[7] serve as Deputy National Security Advisors.[8][9] The policy group is the main mechanism for inter-ministerial coordination and integration of inputs in forming national security policies. The group members include the NITI Aayog vice chairman, the cabinet secretary, the three military chiefs, the Reserve Bank of India governor, the foreign secretary, home secretary, finance secretary and the defense secretary.[10]

In June, 2019 NSA Ajit Doval was elevated to the rank of Cabinet Minister with a second 5-year term.[11]

List of National Security Advisors

No Name Portrait Term of office Previous Post(s) held Prime Minister Additional NSA Deputy NSA(s)
1 Brajesh Mishra,Template:Efn IFS File:The President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil presenting the Padma Vibhushan award to Shri Brajesh Chandra Mishra, at an Investiture Ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on March 24, 2011 (cropped).jpg 19 November 1998 22 May 2004 Template:Age in years and days Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Post created)
2 J. N. Dixit, IFS File:Jnd2.JPG 23 May 2004 3 January 2005 Template:Age in years and days Foreign Secretary Manmohan Singh
3 M. K. Narayanan, IPS File:Mayankote Kelath Narayanan - Kolkata 2013-01-07 2702 Cropped.JPG 3 January 2005 23 January 2010 Template:Age in years and days Director, Intelligence Bureau
  • Leela K. Ponappa (May 2007 - October 2009)[12]
  • Shekhar Dutt (27 July 2007 - 2009)[13]
  • Alok Prasad (October 2009 - January 2011)[14]
4 Shivshankar Menon,[6] IFS File:Msc2011 SZ 004 Menon (cropped).jpg 24 January 2010 26 May 2014 Template:Age in years and days Foreign Secretary
  • Vijaya Latha Reddy (March 2011 - March 2013)[15]
  • Nehchal Sandhu (21 March 2013 - 31 July 2014)[15]
5 Ajit Doval, IPS File:Ajit Kumar Doval.jpg 30 May 2014 Incumbent

(Period Co-terminus with term of Prime Minister)

Template:Age in years and days Director, Intelligence Bureau Narendra Modi Rajinder Khanna (15 July 2024 – Incumbent)

See also

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Notes

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