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
