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Senior IPS officer Ravi Sinha appointed new RAW chief

Published on 21 Jun 2023

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Senior IPS officer Ravi Sinha appointed new RAW chief
  • 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.
Source: SarkariPariksha