Intelligence Bureau (India)
| खुफिया विभाग | |
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| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 1887 |
| Headquarters | New Delhi, Delhi, India |
| Motto | जागृतं अहर्निशं (English : Always Alert) |
| Employees | Classified |
| Annual budget | ₹3,520 crore (US$523.1 million) (2016-17) |
| Agency executive | |
| Parent agency | Ministry of Home Affairs |
| Website | www |
The Intelligence Bureau (IB) (Devanāgarī: खुफिया विभाग , khūphiyā vibhāga) is India's internal intelligence agency. It was recast as the Central Intelligence Bureau in 1947 under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The reason for the perception may be because, in 1885, Major General Sir Charles MacGregor was appointed Quartermaster General and head of the Intelligence Department for the British Indian Army at Simla. The objective then was to monitor Russian troop deployments in Afghanistan, fearing a Russian invasion of British India through the North-West during the late 19th century.
In 1909, the Indian Political Intelligence Office was established in England in response to the development of Indian revolutionary activities, which came to be called the Indian Political Intelligence (IPI) from 1921. This was a state-run surveillance and monitoring agency. The IPI was run jointly by the India Office and the Government of India and reported jointly to the Secretary of the Public and Judicial Department of the India Office, and the Director of Intelligence Bureau (DIB) in India, and maintained close contact with Scotland Yard and MI5.
Rajiv Jain is the current director of IB, holding the position since January 1, 2017.Rajiv Jain is a 1980 batch Police officer from the Jharkhand cadre who take over from Dineshwar Sharma on January 1.
Shrouded in secrecy, the IB is used to garner intelligence from within India and also execute counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism tasks. The Bureau comprises employees from law enforcement agencies, mostly from the Indian Police Service (IPS) or the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) and the military. However, the Director of Intelligence Bureau (DIB) has always been an IPS officer. In addition to domestic intelligence responsibilities, the IB is particularly tasked with intelligence collection in border areas, following the 1951 recommendations of the Himmat Singh Ji Committee (also known as the North and North-East Border Committee), a task entrusted to the military intelligence organisations prior to independence in 1947. All spheres of human activity within India and in the neighborhood are allocated to the charter of duties of the Intelligence Bureau. The IB was also tasked with other external intelligence responsibilities as of 1951 until 1968, when the Research and Analysis Wing was formed.
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