NEW DELHI, Aug 24: Former CRPF and ITBP Director General Anish Dayal Singh has been appointed the new Deputy National Security Advisor (NSA), with a mandate to handle internal affairs, official sources said.
Singh, a 1988-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer from the Manipur cadre, retired from service in December 2024.
He brings extensive experience to the role, having served for nearly 30 years in the Intelligence Bureau (IB) before heading the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), and most recently, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).
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According to officials, Singh will be in charge of internal affairs of the country, including Jammu and Kashmir, and Naxal and Northeastern insurgency, as the Deputy NSA.
Former RAW chief Rajinder Khanna is the Additional NSA, while retired IPS officer TV Ravichandran and former IFS officer Pawan Kapoor are the two serving Deputy NSAs.
During his tenure as CRPF chief, Singh was instrumental in a number of key initiatives, such as CRPF’s strides in combating Naxalism, establishing over three dozen forward operating bases, and introducing four new battalions in the Left-Wing Extremism-affected areas.
He also oversaw the CRPF’s role in ensuring security during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and the first Assembly elections in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.(PTI)
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