Ajay Kumar Bhalla

Union Home Secretary of India

Ajay Kumar Bhalla IAS


Home Secretary of India
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 August 2019
Appointed by	Appointments Committee of the Cabinet
Preceded by	Rajiv Gauba

Personal details
Born	(1960-11-26) 26 November 1960 (age 63)^[1]
Alma mater	University of Delhi

Ajay Kumar Bhalla is the current Home Secretary of India. He assumed the office on 23 August 2019, succeeding Rajiv Gauba. He is a senior IAS officer of 1984 batch,^[2]^[3] from Assam Meghalaya cadre. He received four one-year extensions in August 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.^[4] He hails from Bihar, India.

References

^ "Civil List of IAS Officers". dtf.in. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
^ "Ajay Kumar Bhalla is new home secretary". India Today. IANS. 22 August 2019. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
^ "IAS Officer Ajay Kumar Bhalla Appointed Next Union Home Secretary". News18. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
^ PTI (2023-08-04). "Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla gets fourth extension, to remain in service till Aug. 22 next year". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2023-11-20.

Ministry of Home Affairs (India)

Departments

Department of Internal Security	Indian Police Service Intelligence Bureau Central Reserve Police Force Bureau of Police Research and Development Central Industrial Security Force National Security Guard National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Sciences National Crime Records Bureau National Civil Defence College National Investigation Agency National Crime Investigation Bureau North Eastern Council North Eastern Police Academy Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy Assam Rifles Rashtriya Rifles Narcotics Control Bureau
Department of Official Language	Central Translation Bureau Central Hindi Training Institute
Central Armed Police Forces	Border Security Force Indo-Tibetan Border Police Sashastra Seema Bal Central Reserve Police Force Central Industrial Security Force National Security Guards Special Frontier Force Assam Rifles Defence Security Corps
Bureaus	Bureau of Immigration (India) Narcotics Control Bureau National Crime Records Bureau Central Bureau of Investigation National Crime Investigation Bureau
Other Departments	Department of Jammu and Kashmir Affairs Department of Home Department of States