Directorate General of Security (India) explained

Directorate General of Security
Native Name:Hindi: Suraksha Mahanideshalay
Native Name A:Hindi: सुरक्षा महानिदेशालय
Jurisdiction:Government of India
Headquarters:New Delhi
Employees:Classified
Budget:Classified
Minister1 Name:Narendra Modi
Minister1 Pfo:Prime Minister
Chief1 Name:Samant Kumar Goel,[1] IPS (Punjab-1984)
Chief1 Position:
Director General (Security)
Parent Department:Cabinet Secretariat
Child1 Agency:Aviation Research Centre
Child2 Agency:Special Frontier Force (includes Special Group)
Agency Type:Intelligence organisation
Status:Active

The Directorate General of Security is an organisation of covert operations under India's Cabinet Secretariat. It is one of the four legally defined intelligence organisations of India and listed in the Schedule of the Intelligence Organisations (Restriction of Rights) Act, 1985, the other three being I.B., R&AW and NTRO.[2] [3] Since 1971, the Secretary, Research and Analysis Wing has usually held the post of Director General. This organisation used to be composed of Special Service Bureau (now Sashastra Seema Bal), Aviation Research Centre, Special Frontier Force and Chief Inspectorate of Armaments. Since the shifting of SSB and CIOA to the Ministry of Home Affairs in 2001, DGS consists of ARC and SFF only. The Special Group, a non-Tibetan and Sarsawa-based unit of SFF, is also a DGS component.

Early history

In the wake of the Sino-Indian War of 1962, the Intelligence Bureau raised four new organisations in 1962-63: Indo-Tibetan Border Police (originally raised as Frontier Rifles),[4] SFF, SSB and ARC. Of these four, only ITBP was an open force; one of the joint directors of IB, Sardar Balbir Singh, became its founder chief, while still retaining his post in the IB. The other three organisations were covert. Of these, SFF and ARC were set up with CIA help, as a part of CIA Tibetan program. To monitor these two, a CIA-IB joint operations centre was set up in November 1963 and was given the name, Special Centre.[5] When B. N. Mullik, Director of the Intelligence Bureau retired in October 1964, he was re-employed to oversee these covert operations. His position got formalised in February 1965 as Director General of Security.[6] The DGS was established in the Prime Minister's Secretariat (now Prime Minister's Office). SFF, ARC and SSB, already shifted from the Ministry of External Affairs to the Prime Minister's Secretariat on 1 January 1965, became components of this new organisation. The whole set-up was moved to the Cabinet Secretariat on 1 September 1965.[7] [8] Another organisation, Inspectorate of Armaments (later, Chief Inspectorate of Armaments) was created as a part of DGS in 1969.[9] The DGS was declared as a force under section 45(b)(iii) of the Arms Act, 1959 on 21 August 1969.[10]

Organisational structure

The DGS was headed by a Director General, the post being generally held by the Secretary, R&AW. The No. 2 post was called Principal Director, who actually ran the organisation. Below him, there were five set-ups:

  1. Secretariat,[11] headed by Joint Director (Planning & Coordination).
  2. Special Service Bureau, headed by Director. Field formations were headed by Divisional Organisers. The divisions were:
    1. Manipur & Nagaland[12] (This division was called Village Volunteer Force)
    2. Arunachal Pradesh[13] (The Divisional Organiser had dual charge, the other being Security Commissioner of NEFA[14])
    3. North Assam[12]
    4. North Bengal & Sikkim[15]
    5. South Bengal[16]
    6. Uttar Pradesh[17]
    7. Punjab & Himachal Pradesh[18] [19]
    8. Jammu & Kashmir[20]
    9. Rajasthan & Gujarat[21]
    10. Shillong[22]
  3. Aviation Research Centre, headed by Director. Field formations, at Charbatia, Odisha, headed by Joint Director;[23] Doom Dooma, Assam, headed by Deputy Director;[24] Sarsawa, Uttar Pradesh, headed by Deputy Director;[25] Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh;[26] Leh,[23] Ladakh, headed by Assistant Director.[27] Has an air base at Palam, Delhi.[28]
  4. Special Frontier Force, headed by Inspector General. Field formation at Chakrata, Uttarakhand, known as Establishment 22, headed by Commandant (equivalent to brigadier).[29] Another field formation at Sarsawa, Uttar Pradesh, which houses the Special Group.[30] Battalions known as Vikas battalions.
  5. Chief Inspectorate of Armaments, Delhi-based, headed by Chief Inspector (equivalent to lieutenant colonel).[9]

Major missions

Nanda Devi and Nanda Kot Missions

Both of these were joint covert operations of CIA and ARC.[31] The purpose was to place a nuclear-powered telemetry relay listening device on a sufficiently high mountain to listen to Chinese radio signals. First attempt was for Mount Nanda Devi in 1965, which failed due to a severe blizzard. Second attempt was for Mount Nanda Kot in 1966, which succeeded. Team leader of the expedition was Navy Captain Mohan Singh Kohli.

SSB's resistance movement in 1965

During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, village volunteers, male and female, trained in armed guerrilla warfare by SSB, had participated in protecting the Indian border. The founder chief of DGS and SSB, B. N. Mullik described this in details in his 1973 article, The Motto of SSB. Mullik also wrote in that article that by 1965, a million and a half men and women had been trained throughout the border.[32]

Training of Mujib Bahini

The training of Mukti Bahini was arranged by R&AW at camps of BSF, CRPF, Assam Rifles and Rajasthan Armed Constabulary.[33] But the members of the Mujib Bahini, drawn from Bangladesh Chhatra League, did not want anything to do with Mukti Bahini and the provisional government. So they were trained by SFF at Tandawa, near Chakrata, and by SSB, at Haflong training centre.[34]

Operation Mountain Eagle

This is the engagement SFF's Tibetan soldiers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts during the Bangladesh War, described in depth by SFF chief Sujan Singh Uban in his Phantoms of Chittagong: The "Fifth Army" in Bangladesh.[35]

SSB operations during Bangladesh War

Other than training activities, SSB also ran intelligence operations and refugee relief camps on a major scale during the Bangladesh War. As a result, Hara Nath Sarkar[36] and Debakant Kakati,[37] Divisional Organisers of North Bengal and North Assam Divisions, respectively, were awarded the President's Police Medal for Meritorious Service (Bangladesh Special Award).

Raising the Special Group

This force was raised in 1981, under command of IG, SFF. This unit, unlike Tibetan refugees, is composed entirely of deputationists from the Army. By 1984, it had become the primary counter-terrorism force of India. This force was deployed in Operation Blue Star. After the assassination of Indira Gandhi, the SG was given the responsibility of prime ministerial security till the raising of the Special Protection Group.[38]

Raising the National Security Guard

R. T. Nagrani, the then Principal Director, DGS, was tasked with the SG operations in the Golden Temple (Both Sundown and Blue Star; Sundown was aborted). After this, under advice of R. N. Kao, who had come back from retirement as Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister (precursor post of today's National Security Advisor), the PM asked Nagrani to raise a separate force for counter-terrorism. Nagrani did it with a core group of SG operatives. This became known as the National Security Guard.[39] Nagrani became its first DG, while still retaining his post of Principal Director, DGS and later, DG (Security).

Operation Meghdoot

Operation Meghdoot was launched by the Indian Army in 1984 to capture the Siachen Glacier, in which SFF commandos played a pivotal role. One of the Tibetan battalions of SFF is still deployed there.[38]

Operation Vijay

The DGS had used SFF in the Kargil War in 1999. Earlier, ARC surveillance missions had verified presence of Pakistani troops on the Indian side with photographic evidence.[40] [41]

Operation Snow Leopard

In the ongoing Sino-Indian border dispute, India used Tibetan components of SFF in 2020–2021 China–India skirmishes, to capture prominent hill tops south of the Pangong Tso in Ladakh on 31 August 2020 and thereafter in the Galwan River Valley conflict.[42] [43]

Service chiefs

From 1965 to 1971, the Director General of Security was a separate post; since then the post has been held by Secretary, R&AW, except a brief interlude, when R. T. Nagrani held the post separately. After creation of the post of Principal Director, the incumbent of that post ran the organisation under the overall command of Secretary (R). The post of PD was shifted to the Ministry of Home Affairs on 15 January 2001 as Director General, SSB; when SSB and CIOA were moved. Thereafter, the post of Director, ARC was raised from Additional Secretary to Special Secretary level with the concomitant role of Head of Department, SFF.[44]

Director General (Security)

Sr No.NameFromTillRemarks
1B. N. Mullik, IPFebruary 19656 May 1966Formerly, Director, Intelligence Bureau
2M. M. L. Hooja, IP1 August 196615 January 1968Later, Director, Intelligence Bureau
3Sardar Balbir Singh, IP19681971[45] [46] Formerly, founder IG of ITBP
4Secretary, R&AW197131 January 1986
5Ram Tekchand Nagrani, RAS31 January 198625 September 1986[47] Concurrent with Director General, NSG
6Secretary, R&AW26 September 1986December 2014
7VacantDecember 2014March 2015[48] Post was kept vacant during tenure of Arvind Saxena as Special Secretary, ARC
8Secretary, R&AWMarch 2015Till date

Principal Director, DGS

Incumbents of this post[49] ran the DGS organisation since 1974 under overall command of Secretary (R).

Sr No.NameFromTillRemarks
1R. N. Manickam, IPS30 November 197430 June 1977formerly, IGP, Madras State
2Pitri Sharan Raturi, IPS12 July 197731 March 1979
3Thiruvalanchuly Muthukrishna Ayyar Subramaniam, IPS31 March 19793 February 1982He was IB's liaison officer with CIA and USAF at Agra air base, in the initial days of ARC, before its formal creation.[50]
4Sudarshan Singh Bajwa, IPS3 February 198231 August 1982formerly, IGP, Haryana[51]
5Onkar Singh, IPS31 August 198231 October 1982
6Ram Tekchand Nagrani, RAS12 September 198331 January 1986originally IPS (04RR). Promoted to Director General (Security). Concurrently, founder DG of NSG
7Ramchandar Swaminathan, RAS23 February 198831 July 1990originally IPS (07RR). Later, Vice-President, Chennai Centre for China Studies[52] [53]
8Hari Baboo Johri, IPS31 July 199030 April 1991
9Natesan Narasimhan, RAS27 May 199131 July 1991originally IPS (10RR). Promoted to DG (Security) and Secretary (R)
10A. P. Verma, RAS7 October 199131 October 1991originally IPS (12RR)
11N. Natarajan, IPS1 November 199131 December 1992
12Kalyan Kumar Mitra, RAS30 April 199328 February 1995originally IPS (13RR).
13S. Gopal, RAS1 March 199529 September 1996originally IPS (14RR). Later, Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee Visiting Chair Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies.[54] [55] [56] Currently member of the Constitutional Conduct Group, a group of former civil servants, with the motto of Speaking Truth to Power.
14Rajendra Mohan, IPS30 September 199630 September 1997
15Nachhattar Singh Sandhu, IPS26 October 199915 January 2001re-designated as Director General, SSB

Special Secretary, ARC

Sr No.NameFromTillRemarks
1Ravinder Singh Bedi, RAS20012003originally of the Army, then RAS-1966. Later, founder Chairman of NTRO
2Amar Bhushan, RAS200331 January 2005[57] originally IPS (20RR). Also had charge of Administration and Counter-Intelligence & Security (CIS) wings of R&AW. During his tenure as head of CIS, Rabinder Singh, a joint secretary in R&AW, managed to defect to the USA.[58] Also known as a thriller writer, has authored The Spymaster series and other novels.[59] [60]
3Ajai Singh, RAS20052008originally IPS (23RR)
4Sanjeev Kumar Tripathi, RAS200830 December 2010originally IPS (25RR). Promoted to Secretary, R&AW and DG (Security)
5Avadhesh Behari Mathur, IPSDecember 2010December 2011Promoted to Secretary (Security).[61] Later, UNMIK Head of Office, Mitrovica, Kosovo,[62] Member, National Security Advisory Board and emeritus resource faculty, Rashtriya Raksha University[63]
6Krishan Varma, RASDecember 201130 September 2012later, emeritus resource faculty, Rashtriya Raksha University,[64] member, Advisory Council, Global Counter Terrorism Council,[65] Impulse Model Policy Advisor India to the Impulse NGO Network,[66] member, Board of Advisors, Usanas Foundation[67] and Trustee, Foundation for Non-violent Alternatives.[68]
7Amitabh Mathur, RAS20122014originally IPS (30RR). Later, Special Adviser, Ministry of Home Affairs, and founding partner of DeepStrat LLP, a New Delhi-based think tank and strategic consultancy.[69] Currently member of the Constitutional Conduct Group, a group of former civil servants, with the motto of Speaking Truth to Power.[70] [71]
8Arvind Saxena, RASDecember 2014May 2015originally IPoS (1978). Later, Chairman, UPSC
9Anil Kumar Dhasmana, IPS201531 December 2016Promoted to Secretary (R) and DG (Security). Later, Chairman, NTRO
10Kumaresan Ilango, RAS2017[72] 28 February 2019[73] [74] originally IPS (35RR). Was recalled as station chief of R&AW from Colombo in 2015 amid accusation of meddling in the 2015 Sri Lanka presidential election.[75]
11R. Kumar, RAS201930 November 2020originally IA&AS (1984)
12Rajesh Mishra, IPoS (1985)202028 February 2021[76]
13Maruti Narayan Sridhar Rao, IPoS (1985)202131 October 2022[77]

Rank structure

Note: Combatised personnel of SFF have pay parity with the Army, vide Cabinet Secretariat Order dated 16.10.2009; pension & pensionarybenefits to SFF personnel are also at par with Indian Army for Group 'Y' 'Personnel Below Officer Rank' (PBORs).[82] In addition, army personnel on deputation to Special Group (4 Vikas) of SFF get special force allowance (SFA) and para pay.[83]

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