New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday started the consultation process with his senior Cabinet colleagues and the national security adviser Ajit Doval for another key appointment, that of the director Intelligence Bureau.
Sources said the Modi government has been attaching extreme importance to internal security and intelligence mechanism flagging them as a “priority area”.
Thus even though the present chief of the country’s premiere intelligence agency Syed Asif Ibrahim retires at the end of this month the government is keen to finalise the next incumbent well in time, sources added.
The move comes close on the heels of the government appointing Anil Kumar Sinha as the new CBI director. Sources said once the name of the IB chief is finalised over the next few days, the new chief of external intelligence agency the Research and Analysis Wing too would be shortlisted.
The present R&AW chief Alok Joshi also retires by the end of this month. For the post of IB chief, the government is believed to have zeroed down on two senior IPS officers, D.P. Sinha and Ashok Prasad.
