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Issues with Indian Internal security

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July 10, 2017

What is the issue?

Amid growing challenges within, India misses a modern security apparatus, strategic vision and a long-term plan.

What are internal threats to India?

  • There is long standing insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir.
  • Various secessionist and rebel movements in the North East and Eastern regions.
  • Left wing extremism in red corridor states.
  • Political instability created by non-secular forces.
  • Uprising of the disappointed masses.

What are the issues with present internal security policies?

  • No adequate attention to strengthening the internal security apparatus.
  • Liquidated National Security Advisory Board (NSAB).
  • Ignorance of the government to take ad hoc decisions on crucial matters.
  • No long-term policy for Jammu and Kashmir.
  • No strategic vision to tackle the Maoist insurgency.
  • SMART police could never take off because of the indifference of the states.

What could be done?

  • The US and UK revise their national security doctrines every year and place them in the public domain, India can follow such ideas.
  • British imperialists had one Police Act for the entire country, thus police reforms are need of the hour.
  • There are threats to internal security by the Islamic state; setting up a National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) will help to address the issue.
  • The government need to setup dedicated autonomous bodies to strengthen our northern frontiers.
  • New formula of SAMADHAN to tackle the Naxal problems should be framed in a reliable way.

Quick fact

National security advisory board

  • The National Security Advisory Board consists of senior retired officials, civilian as well as military, academics and distinguished members of civil society.
  • They are drawn from and having expertise in Internal and External Security, Foreign Affairs, Defence, Science & Technology and Economic Affairs.
  • The NSAB meets at least once a month or more frequently as needed.
  • Its principal function is to undertake long-term analysis of and provide perspectives on issues of national security.
  • Its policy recommendations and options are conveyed to the National Security Council for its consideration.

 

Source: The Indian Express

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