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National Security Advisory Board reconstituted

By Sandeep Dikshit

NEW DELHI JAN. 17. But for three new inclusions, the Government has continued with the remaining members of the previous National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) for the year.

It has re-nominated leading China expert and former Ambassador to Beijing and Paris, C.V. Ranganathan, as convener of the reconstituted NSAB for 2003-04. Thus Mr. Ranganathan gets two consecutive terms as Convener like the defence expert, K. Subrahmanyam, who had headed the first and second editions of the NSAB.

The NSAB is entrusted with an annual review of the security scenario. The third NSAB, in its final review, had reportedly suggested abandoning the policy of no-first-strike but interacting recently with newsmen, the Defence Minister, George Fernandes, had ruled out revising the doctrine proposed by the NSAB headed by Dr. Subrahmanyam.

This is the fourth NSAB that the Government has constituted. Among those re-nominated for the second and last term are the former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, M.R. Srinivasan, the former Secretary (Economic Relations) in the Ministry of External Affairs, S.T. Devare, the former Army chief, V.P.Malik, the former IAF vice-chief, Vinod Patney, the former Naval officer, K.K. Nayyar, Charan Wadhwa of the Centre of Policy Research, scientist Kalyan Banerjee, the former Intelligence Bureau chief, Arun Bhagat, the former Director-General of the National Security Guards (NSG) Nikhil Kumar, academician Amitabh Mattoo and the former bureaucrat, R.K. Ahuja.

The Director of the Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA), K. Santhanam, the chief of BJP's economic cell Jagdish Shettigar and the former Cabinet Secretariat official, B. Raman, have not been included for various reasons.

Among the new inclusions are Leena Srivastava, B.K.R. Rao and K.M. Warikoo from the JNU.

"As in the past, the term of the NSAB will be for a period of one year from the date of its first meeting,'' said an official release.

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