Centre grants one-year extension of tenure to chiefs of Intelligence Bureau, R&AW
BVR Subramanyam, chief secretary of J&K, was brought to Delhi as OSD in Commerce Ministry and has been replaced by AK Mehta.
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NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday extended the tenure of heads of the two intelligence agencies Intelligence Bureau (IB) and Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW). It also approved a change of guard in Jammu and Kashmir s top bureaucratic post of chief secretary.
The tenure of IPS officer Samant Kumar Goel, Secretary, R&AW, was extended by one year. His batchmate Aravinda Kumar, Director, IB, also got an extension of one year. BVR Subramanyam, chief secretary of J&K, was brought to Delhi as OSD in Commerce Ministry. The extensions were cleared by the Appointments Committee of Cabinet.
B.V.R. Subrahmanyam: The Bureaucrat Who Oversaw J&K’s Tumultuous Transition
B.V.R. Subrahmanyam was replaced as the chief secretary of Jammu and Kashmir by Arun Kumar Mehta.
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The bureaucrat who oversaw Jammu and Kashmir’s tumultuous and controversial transition into two Union Territories has been shunted out as the chief secretary after nearly three years, and the political opposition lost no time in dismissing him as “the darkest person in the darkest hours of Kashmir”.