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Sanjay Mitra to be next Defence Secretary

Road and Transport Secretary Sanjay Mitra will be the next Defence Secretary, it was announced on Wednesday. Mitra, a 1982 batch…

IANS | New Delhi | May 10, 2017 1:51 pm

Sanjay Mitra to be next Defence Secretary

Sanjay Mitra (Photo: Facebook)

Road and Transport Secretary Sanjay Mitra will be the next Defence Secretary, it was announced on Wednesday.

Mitra, a 1982 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre, will succeed G Mohan Kumar whose tenure ends May 24, said a government order.

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Institutional stability is particularly important given that Pakistan hosts up to 120 nuclear warheads and it concurrently practices terrorism as a state policy (even though it is not officially stated). Now, given the process of natural seepage and affliction of the larger societal sensibilities and regressions onto a sub-institution within its midst, the Pakistani military, it is absolutely critical that the safety of the nuclear programme is never compromised. For long, fears of nuclear wherewithal falling into wrong hands has haunted security mandarins across the globe