Punjab cadre RAW chief gets extension
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The Union Government today extended the tenure of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) chief Samant Kumar Goel IPS and Intelligence Bureau head Arvind Kumar.
The extensions were cleared by the Appointments Committee of Cabinet and both were given a one-year extension in their services, the order said.
Samant Goel is a Punjab cadre 1984 batch officer, would continue to be the secretary of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) (India’s foreign intelligence agency) for a period of one year.
Before his appointment as R&AW chief, Goel was heading operations for the agency and was instrumental in planning the February 2019 Balakot air strikes and also the 2016 surgical strikes.
Goel has spent a considerable part of his career in Punjab, where he was posted to oversee security, intelligence and the border range. A 1984 batch IPS officer had been instrumental in handling the Punjab militancy when it was at its peak in the 1990s and was also posted in Dubai and London. He was posted as in-charge consular affairs in Dubai and also in London.The IPS officer came to Delhi on his first assignment at the R&AW in 2001 and has stayed back.
May 27,2021
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