Govt Approves Two-year Extensions for Defence, Home, RAW Secretaries, IB Director

Earlier, President Ram Nath Kovind had promulgated two ordinances allowing the Modi government to extend the tenures of the directors of the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate from two years to up to five years.

New Delhi: The Modi government on Monday issued a gazette notification and stated that the secretaries in Home and Defence departments, Research and Analysis Wing, as well as directors of the Intelligence Bureau, Central Bureau of Research and Enforcement Directorate can get tenure extension of only two years.

Earlier, President Ram Nath Kovind had promulgated two ordinances allowing the Modi government to extend the tenures of the directors of the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate from two years to up to five years.

“Provided also that the Central Government may, if it considers necessary in public interest so to do, give extension in service to the Defence Secretary, Home Secretary, Director of Intelligence Bureau (IB), Secretary of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) appointed under the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946 (25 of 1946) and Director of Enforcement in the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) appointed under the Central Vigilance Commission Act, 2003 (45 of 2003) in the Central Government for such period or periods as it may deem proper on a case-to-case basis for reasons to be recorded in writing, subject to the condition that the total term of such Secretaries or Directors, as the case may be, who are given such extension in service under this rule, does not exceed two years or the period provided in the respective Act or rules made thereunder, under which their appointments are made,” the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions said in its notification.

The Union Cabinet had cleared a fixed tenure of two years for Defence Secretary, Home Secretary and chiefs of Intelligence Bureau and RAW back in 2005.