Ajit Doval
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Ajit Kumar Doval अजीत कुमार डोवाल KC, PM, PPM |
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Ajit Kumar Doval
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| 5th National Security Adviser of India | |
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Assumed office 30 May 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Deputy | Arvind Gupta |
| Preceded by | Shivshankar Menon |
| Director of Intelligence Bureau | |
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In office July 2004 – January 2005 |
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| Prime Minister | Manmohan Singh |
| Preceded by | K P Singh |
| Succeeded by | E S L Narasimhan |
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20 January 1945 Ghiri Banelsyun, Pauri Garhwal, United Provinces, British India (now in Uttarakhand, India) |
| Residence | New Delhi, India |
| Education | Masters in Economics |
| Alma mater |
Rashtriya Military School Ajmer Agra University National Defence College |
| Awards |
 Police Medal President's Police Medal Kirti Chakra
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| Website | Doval's Blog |
Ajit Kumar Doval, IPS (Retd), PM, PPM, KC (born 20 January 1945) is a former Indian intelligence and law enforcement officer, who, since 30 May 2014, is the 5th and current National Security Adviser to Prime Minister of India. He had previously served as the Director of the Intelligence Bureau in 2004–05, after spending a decade as the head of its operations wing.
Doval was born in 1945 in Ghiri Banelsyun village in Pauri Garhwal in the erstwhile United Provinces, now in Uttarakhand. Doval's father was an officer in the Indian Army.
He received his early education at the Ajmer Military School (formerly King George's Royal Indian Military School) in Ajmer, Rajasthan. He graduated with a master's degree in economics from the University of Agra in 1967, obtaining first position.
Doval joined the IPS in 1968 in the Kerala cadre. He was actively involved in anti-insurgency operations in Mizoram and Punjab. Doval was one of three negotiators who negotiated the release of passengers from IC-814 in Kandahar in 1999. Uniquely, he has the experience of being involved in the termination of all 15 hijackings of Indian Airlines aircraft from 1971–1999. In the Headquarters, he headed IB's operations wing for over a decade and was founder Chairman of the Multi Agency Centre (MAC), as well as of the Joint Task Force on Intelligence (JTFI).
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