Balakot strategist Samant Goel is new RAW chief, Kashmir expert Arvind Kumar IB director
The Narendra Modi government today named IPS officer Samant Goel as the new Research and Analysis Wing chief. This comes three months after Samant Goel assumed a key job in India's counter-assault on the terror framework in Pakistan's Balakot. In another key advancement, the government has named senior IPS official Arvind Kumar as the chief of the Intelligence Bureau. He is viewed as a specialist hand on issues identified with Kashmir. The arrangements to the top posts in the outside and domestic insight offices were made by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet. PM Narendra Modi is the chairman of this board of trustees. The two IPS officials are of the 1984 batch and hold the position of Director General. Goel is from the Punjab framework while Kumar is from the Assam-Meghalaya personnel. Goel replaces official Anil Kumar Dhasmana, who is retiring following more than two years of distinguished administration. He has taken care of Punjab militancy at its top during the 1990s. Then again, Arvind Kumar has been engaged with handling Naxal radicalism at the Intelligence Bureau. He is holding the charge as special chief Kashmir at the IB.