Updated: September 14, 2020 1:41:47 am
These include Chief of Defense Staff Bipin Rawat, at least 60 senior and retired army officers, including at least 14 former heads of the three services and scientists from the Atomic Energy Commission to the Research Organization. Indian space. (Photo Express)
That there is a different strategic imperative in tracking of Indian “targets” by Chinese company Zhenhua Data It is evident in the fact that the top brass of the country’s military and scientific establishment are listed, an investigation by The Indian Express Has revealed.
These include the Chief of Defense Staff, Bipin Rawat, at least 60 senior and retired army officers, including at least 14 former heads of the three services and scientists from the Atomic Energy Commission to the Research Organization. Indian space.
Among those observed are leading scientists from Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL); the Atomic Energy Regulatory Council (AERB); the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC); the Atomic Minerals Exploration and Research Directorate (AMD); and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
From ISRO’s low-cost missions to the moon and Mars and securing India’s place in the international market for space products and services to the nuclear arena where a deal with the US helped break India’s long nuclear winter. India, this network of institutions and organizations is key to the security and strategic interests of the country.
Indeed, a scrutiny of the list confirms Zhenhua’s interest in its staff.
Satish Sharma, CMD, NPCIL, who obtained a two-year extension last year, is on the list with Sudhinder Thakur, NPCIL Distinguished Scientist who was appointed Chairman of the Technical Committee for Site Exploration to establish future designated nuclear power projects. by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).
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Also present are the nuclear physicist and former president of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Anil Kakodkar; former Vice President of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Council (AERB) Dr. R Bhattacharya; former ISRO scientist Rajmal Jain; and the director of the Atomic Minerals Exploration and Research Directorate (AMD), Lalit Nanda.
From the Secretariat of the National Security Council (NSCS), the list has at least four former diplomats: Shivshankar Menon, national security adviser (NSA) to then-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh; Latha Reddy, responsible for cybersecurity issues as an NSA MP under Menon; Leela Ponappa, who served as the NSA deputy in the UPA-I government, and Arvind Gupta, who served as the NSA deputy during 2014-2017 and is currently the director of the Vivekananda International Foundation.
Among the top detectives on the list are former RAW chief VikramSood; former IB Additional Director Gurbachan Singh and former Deputy Director General of the Central Bureau of Economic Intelligence Kailash Sethi.
Several former Defense staff members on the list are those who joined politics and think tanks, or assumed public office after their retirement. Among them: former Navy Chief Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi, who resigned assuming moral responsibility for repeated ship and submarine accidents in 2014 and was appointed Deputy Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in 2017; Air Marshal Ajit Shankarrao Bhonsle, member of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC); the former Deputy Chief of the Army, Lt. Gen. Sarath Chand, who joined the BJP a year after his retirement in 2018; former Army Chief Admiral L Ramdas, who served as “internal lokpal” of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP); former Army Chief General NC Vij and Lieutenant General Harcharanjit Singh Panag, who joined the Aam Aadmi Party in 2014 after retiring from the Armed Forces Tribunal.
Former CEOs of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and the Indian Coast Guard are being monitored along with officials from the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS); the Central Office of Economic Intelligence (CEIB); Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), the Bureau of Intelligence (IB) and the National Security Guard (NSG).
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