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The Ministry of Home Affairs or Home Ministry is a ministry of the Government of India, serving as the Indian State Department. An interior ministry, it is mainly responsible for the maintenance of internal security and domestic policy. The Home Ministry is headed by Union Minister of Home Affairs. Shri Rajnath Singh is the present Minister of Home Affairs.The Home Ministry is also the cadre controlling Authority for the Indian Police Service, DANIPS and DANICS. Police-I Division of the Ministry is the Cadre Controlling Authority in respect of the Indian Police Service; whereas, the UT Division is the administrative Division for DANIPS and DANICS and the All India Service Officers posted and working in the AGMUT Cadre.Senior officialsMinisterial TeamThe ministerial team at the MHA is headed by the Union Cabinet Minister of Home Affairs, who is supported by one Minister of State and civil servants assigned to them to manage the ministers' office and ministry.Home Secretary and other senior officialsThe Home Secretary is generally a senior IAS officer. MHA headquarters in addition to post of Home Secretary has, on account of up-gradations since 2008, four more officers with the equivalent rank of secretary or special secretary, including one officer from the Indian Police Service. The current Home Secretary is Rajiv Gauba.