Retired RAW chief Alok Joshi to take over NTRO

Days after his retirement as the chief of India’s external intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), Alok Joshi has been appointed as the new chairman of the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO). Government sources have confirmed the appointment to HT.

Updated on: Jan 6, 2015, 19:53:24 IST

Hindustan Times | By Prashant Jha, New Delhi

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Days after his retirement as the chief of India’s external intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), Alok Joshi has been appointed as the new chairman of the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO). Government sources have confirmed the appointment to HT.

On a short break currently, Joshi will take over as OSD next week, and officially as chairman on April 30.

The NTRO is the special technical intelligence gathering branch of the government.

Joshi, a Haryana cadre IPS officer of the 1976 batch, has served in the Intelligence Bureau and RAW for years. Joshi is a specialist on the neighbourhood, and has served as the RAW station chief in Nepal, and handled counter terrorism. National Security Advisor, A K Doval, is understood to have been impressed with Joshi, and strongly pitched for his appointment.

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Prashant Jha is the Washington DC-based US correspondent of Hindustan Times. He is also the editor of HT Premium. Jha has earlier served as editor-views and national political editor/bureau chief of the paper. He is the author of How the BJP Wins: Inside India's Greatest Election Machine and Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal.Read More

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