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National Security Advisory Board reconstituted

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: The Government on Saturday reconstituted the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) with former Foreign Secretary M. K. Rasgotra named convener for a second term.

Other members of the NSAB are the Editor of The Hindu N. Ravi; former bureaucrats K. S. Rao and V. K. Jain; Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis Director N. S. Sisodia (also a former bureaucrat); scientist Roddham Narasimha; former Army Chief V. N. Sharma; former Indian Air Force chief S. Krishnaswamy; former naval officer P. S. Das; former Atomic Energy Commission Chairman M. R. Srinivasan; former intelligence officers S. P. Talukdar and A. S. Dulat; academicians Rakesh Datta, N. Balakrishnan and Alka Acharya; former foreign service officials K. V. Rajan and V. K. Grover; political analyst Wasbir Hussain; and Director Indian Council for Research in International Economic Relations, Rajiv Kumar.

The NSAB will now have 19 members instead of 15 as in the past.

Barring the Convener, the Government has dropped all members of the previous NSAB.

The previous NSAB constituted by the Manmohan Singh Government included former service officials P.J. Jacob (Navy), P.S. Brar (Air Force), S.S. Mehta (Army); former Border Security Force chief E. N. Rammohan; former intelligence officials B.K.R. Rao and D. C. Pathak; former Ambassador to the United Nations Hamid Ansari; President, Development Alternatives, Ashok Khosla; Honorary director, Women in Security Conflict Managament and Peace, Meenakshi Gopinath; Professor of Chemical Engineering, Punjab University, S.K. Sharma; former DRDO scientist Amitav Malik, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University C. Rajamohan, and journalist Manoj Joshi.

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