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Research and Analysis Wing ('''RAW''' or '''R&AW''') SAAG-R&AW ''last accessed on 12.04.2007'' is India 's external Intelligence Agency . After the Sino-Indian War Of 1962 and the Indo-Pakistani War Of 1965 the need for a separate intelligence body was keenly felt. Research and Analysis Wing was therefore created as an independent unit in September 1968 from the Intelligence Bureau , which handled both internal and external intelligence. Its headquarters are on Lodhi Road in New Delhi . The current director of the organization is Ashok Chaturvedi , an IPS officer who later joined the Research and Analysis Service (RAS). EVOLUTION OF R&AW (1918-2002). Founder Director of RAW]]R&AW traces its origins to the post Sino-Indian War (October 20 - November 21, 1962) scenario where foreign intelligence failure led to Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru ( 1889 - 1964 ) instructing the setting up of a dedicated foreign intelligence agency. Prior to its inception, intelligence collection was primarily the responsibility of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) which was created by the British. In 1933, sensing the political turmoil in the world which eventually led to the Second World War , the bureau's responsibilities were increased to include the collection of Intelligence along India's borders. In 1947 , after Independence , Sanjeevi Pillai took over as the first Indian Director of IB. Having been depleted of trained manpower by the exit of the British , Pillai tried to run the bureau along MI5 lines. Although in 1949, Pillai organized a small foreign intelligence set-up, the inefficacy of it was proved by the Indian debacle in the Indo-China War of 1962 , and the cry of 'not enough intelligence available', was taken up by the Indian Chief Of Army Staff , General Chaudhry, after the Indo-Pakistani War Of 1965 . Around the end of 1966 the concept of a separate foreign intelligence agency began to take concrete shape. In , submitted a blueprint for the new agency. Kao was appointed as the chief of India's first foreign intelligence agency named as the Research and Analysis Wing or R&AW. The R&AW was given the responsibility for strategic external intelligence, human as well as technical, plus concurrent responsibility with the Directorate-General of Military Intelligence for tactical trans-border military intelligence up to a certain depth across the LOC and the international border. As per convention, the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) under the Cabinet Secretariat is responsible for co-ordinating and analyzing intelligence activities between RAW, the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). In practice, however, the effectiveness of the JIC has been varied. With the establishment of the National Security Council in 1999, the role of the JIC has been merged with the NSC. R&AW's legal status is unusual; it is not an "Agency" but a "Wing" of the Cabinet Secretariat. Hence R&AW is not answerable to Parliament on any issue. Because of this, R&AW has been kept out of reach of the '' Right To Information Act '' http://www.helplinelaw.com/docs/main.php3?id=RTON1 Dept. which are excludedHowever notwithstanding that they are exempt from the Right to Information Act, Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) has conveyed, in response to a RTI petition filed by Anuj Dhar, that they aren't holding any information on Subhas Chandra Bose http://www.missionnetaji.org/page/raw_rti.html.. R&AW TAKES SHAPE R&AW started as a wing of the main Intelligence Bureau with 250 employees and an annual budget of s), many of which are used to transport Special Frontier Force (SFF) commandos from their base at Chakrata, 250 km north of New Delhi , at the behest of R&AW operatives or from the Intelligence Bureau are tasked with gathering information via airborne signal intelligence ( SIGINT ) operations and photo reconnaissance flights along its northern and eastern frontiers.http://www.southasiamonitor.org/2006/mar/news/20news1.shtml The Government of India has added another intelligence agency which is dedicated to collection of technical intelligence ( TECHINT ). India's new hi-tech spying agency, the National Technical Facilities Organisation (NTFO), also known as National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) is believed to be functioning under RAW, although it remains autonomous to some degree. While the exact nature of the operations conducted by NTFO are classified, it is believed that it deals with research on imagery and communications using various platforms. R&AW'S OBJECTIVES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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