Murali Rao R J Posted as Director, National Security Council Secretariat

Murali Rao R J, a 2013-batch officer of the Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Indirect Taxes), has been posted as Director in the National Security Council Secretariat for a period of three years.

The National Security Council Secretariat is the apex body that coordinates India's national security policy, working directly under the National Security Adviser and drawing officers from across central services, the armed forces and intelligence agencies for postings that inform the government's top-level security decision-making.

Rao's move from the revenue service to the NSCS continues a pattern in which IRS officers with strong records in enforcement and intelligence-linked assignments within the Customs and GST framework are selected for postings at the apex security coordination body.

A Director-level posting at NSCS typically involves handling a specific policy vertical or coordination function, feeding assessments and inputs into the broader national security decision-making process managed by the Secretariat.

His three-year tenure is the standard duration for central deputation postings of this kind, after which officers typically return to their parent cadre or seek a further central assignment depending on vacancy and performance.

The posting reflects the continuing practice of drawing revenue service officers into national security roles that value their financial investigation and data analysis backgrounds.

Rao's tenure at NSCS runs for three years from the date of posting, as per the order.