These include Chief of Defense Staff Bipin Rawat to at least 60 senior and retired military officers, including at least 14 former heads of the three services and scientists from the Atomic Energy Commission. at the Indian Space Research Organization.

Among those we look at are the top scientists of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL); the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB); the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC); the Directorate of Exploration and Research of Atomic Minerals (AMD); and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).

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Low-cost ISRO missions to the Moon and Mars and securing India’s place in the international market for space products and services to the nuclear arena where an agreement with the United States has helped Breaking India’s long nuclear winter, this network of institutions and organizations is essential for the security and strategic interests of the country.

Indeed, a close examination of the list confirms Zhenhua’s interest in his staff.

Satish Sharma, CMD, NPCIL, who was granted a two-year extension last year, is on the list along with Sudhinder Thakur, a distinguished scientist from NPCIL who has been appointed chairman of the technical committee for site exploration for the implementation. place of future nuclear energy projects appointed by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).

Nuclear physicist and former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Anil Kakodkar are also in attendance; former vice-chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) Dr R Bhattacharya; former ISRO scientist Rajmal Jain; and Lalit Nanda, director of the Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMD).

From the Secretariat of the National Security Council (NSCS), the list includes at least four former diplomats: Shivshankar Menon, National Security Advisor (NSA) to then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh; Latha Reddy who was responsible for cybersecurity issues as NSA deputy under Menon; Leela Ponappa, who was NSA deputy in the UPA-I government, and Arvind Gupta who was NSA deputy from 2014 to 2017 and is currently director of the Vivekananda International Foundation.

Some of the top detectives on the list include former RAW boss VikramSood; former IB additional director Gurbachan Singh and former Central Economic Intelligence Bureau deputy director general Kailash Sethi.

A number of former defense personnel on the list are those who have joined politics and think tanks, or who have assumed public office after retirement. Among them: former Navy Chief Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi, who resigned taking moral responsibility for repeated ship and submarine accidents in 2014 and was appointed lieutenant governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in 2017 ; Air Marshal Ajit Shankarrao Bhonsle, Member, Union Public Service Commission (UPSC); former Deputy Army Chief Lt. Gen. Sarath Chand, who joined the BJP a year after his retirement in 2018; the former head of the navy, Admiral L Ramdas, who served as the “internal lokpal” of the Aam Aadmi party (AAP); former army chief General NC Vij and Lieutenant General Harcharanjit Singh Panag, who joined the Aam Aadmi party in 2014 after retiring from the Armed Forces Tribunal.

Former Directors General of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and Indian Coast Guard are monitored along with officials from the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS); the Central Bureau of Economic Intelligence (CEIB); Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), the Bureau of Intelligence (IB) and the National Security Guard (NSG).