<Li> Strategic Information Services </Li> <Li> Tactical Intelligence Division </Li> <P> To ensure a high degree of synergy between the Armed forces, the Government has set up the Integrated Defence Staff, headed by the Chief of Integrated Staff as the Chairman . It was created on 1 October 2001 based on the recommendations of the Group of Ministers which was set up in 2000 (post-Kargil) to review India's defence management . It acts as the point organisation for integration of policy, doctrine, war fighting and procurement by employing best management practices . The current Chief of Integrated Defence Staff is Lieutenant General Satish Dua, who took over on 31 October 2016 . </P> <P>' Chiefs of Staff are the authority for advising the Defence Minister and normally through him the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs on all military matters which require ministerial consideration' . The IDS is' the principal arm and Secretariat to the Chiefs of Staff Committee' </P>

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