Senior IPS officer Ravi Sinha appointed new RAW chief

Senior IPS officer Ravi Sinha appointed new RAW chief

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Category : Appointment/Resignation Published on: June 21 2023

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Senior IPS officer Ravi Sinha appointed as the new chief of India's external intelligence agency RAW.
Sinha will succeed Samant Kumar Goel who will complete his four-year tenure on June 30.
Goel was appointed RAW chief for two years in June 2019. He was later given two extensions of one year each in 2021 and June 2022.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved Sinha's appointment as Secretary, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) for a tenure of two years.
Sinha, a 1988 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Chhattisgarh cadre, is currently Special Secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat.
Sinha has been with the intelligence agency for over two decades.
He was heading the operational wing of RAW before his promotion. Sinha has worked extensively in Jammu and Kashmir, the northeast, and other countries.

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