By Andalib Akhter, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: The New Home Minister of India P Chidambaram is in the process of overhauling whole set up in the ministry that looks after internal security of the country. After getting two crucial Bills passed by Parliament, Chidambaram is making major changes in the bureaucratic set up of the ministry.
Safi Ahsan Rizvi
In fact he has appointed two brilliant IPS officers to look after his ministerial challenges. He has appointed a Muslim IPS officer Safi Ahsan Rizvi as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) while K C Verma, Secretary (Security) in the Cabinet Secretariat his internal security advisor (ISA). Both Rizvi and Verma are IPS officers with many years of experience in the Intelligence Bureau. Rizvi, a 1989 batch officer from Uttarakhand, was a DIG in IB. He is also an MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad.
Chidambaram’s new OSD will do the crucial job of collating security inputs that emerge at Chidambaram’s daily security meetings. He will then work with the ISA to ensure the inputs are communicated to the states and other security agencies and that adequate action is being taken.
According to sources in home ministry Verma has been asked to be present in the daily morning meetings that the Home Minister has with the heads of all intelligence agencies. Rizvi will look after the daily operational details.
The new minister has also changed his predecessor’s practice to get intelligence inputs from IB chief only. Now the NSA and the IB and R&AW chiefs brief him together every day. After their appointment, the ISA, the OSD and the NIA director general will also attend this meeting