Aug 25, 2025: According to official sources, the new Deputy National Security Advisor (NSA) has been given the responsibility of handling internal affairs and is Anish Dayal Singh, a former ITBP and CRPF Director General. In December 2024, Singh, a Manipur cadre Indian Police Service (IPS) officer from the 1988 batch, will retire. He has been in the Intelligence Bureau (IB) for nearly 30 years before taking over the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and, most recently, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). He brings a lot of experience to the position. As the Deputy NSA, Singh will be in charge of the country's internal affairs, including Jammu and Kashmir, the Naxal and Northeastern insurgency. The Additional NSA is Rajinder Khanna, a former RAW chief. The two serving Deputy NSAs are TV Ravichandran, a retired IPS officer, and Pawan Kapoor, a former IFS officer. During his tenure as CRPF chief, Singh was instrumental in a number of key initiatives, such as CRPF’s strides in combating Naxalism, establishing over three dozen forward operating bases, and introducing four new battalions in the Left-Wing Extremism-affected areas.
In addition, he was in charge of the CRPF's role in providing security for the first Assembly elections in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Lok Sabha elections in 2024.