challenges of indian security system
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As a practicing lawyer for about two decades, I have been able to understand and gather considerable information from my work atmosphere, nature of my work and the activities attached to it. This has helped me develop my own perspective on the issue of threat to the internal security of India which has become a major hurdle in the development of the nation.
Internal security is an act of ensuring and keeping peace within the borders of a nation by maintaining the national law and order and defending its people from internal security threats. Responsibility to maintain it lies with agencies ranging from police to paramilitary forces, and in demanding circumstances, the military itself.
There are two apparent and simultaneous challenges before the country and society. First, to tackle the deviation of the youth being psychologically controlled by people who threaten internal security and second, to bring back those valuable human resources which have already been deviated from the mainstream of society. Therefore, this exercise would not be possible only by the forces but would also need participation of the society which has to play a contributory role in prevention of such threats and healing the nation.
The current digital revolution and the changing circumstances relating to the same can neither be handled carelessly nor can they be ignored in the premise of internal security threat. Internal and external security are interlinked and cannot be viewed in isolation, especially considering the digital psycho-extremism emerging from a source which is hard to identify. The people who threaten internal security sitting in any part of the world are successfully providing training and guidance in the remotest of the areas in India today, by using the digital medium as a tool to destroy the efforts of Indians put in building the nation. They are destroying the nation’s valuable human resource which needs to be checked at the earliest by initiating effective measures, not only at the level of securities but by effective participation of our leadership and society. In order to survive as a developing nation, preventing erosion of human resource, staying unaffected by negativity of those threatening internal security and participation of the society are also essential.
The economic concept of the Big Push Theory is required to be implemented in the present scenario and conceptualised for strengthening the forces to eradicate all known sources of threat to internal securities. As a nation and society, we should not face any hitch in following successful nations that are geographically and demographically small. The combination of society and forces, collectively challenging internal threat are being appreciated by the world. To understand in brief, the spectrum of known sources which pose a major internal threat, following categorisation would be helpful:
·Technological advancement/changes
·Unreformed criminal justice system
·Emerging cyber crimes and cyber security threats
·Money laundering
·Nexus of the police, politician and criminals
Poor criminal justice system and large scale corruption leads to nexus between criminals, police and politicians with the result that organised crime goes on unabated. In the Northeast States of India, demographic invasion from Bangladesh has resulted in a serious security threat. Intense illegal movement in many of the bordering districts has brought about a total demographic transformation as the original inhabitants are being forced to sell their lands and flee to safer places. Besides Jihadi terrorism, Left Wing Extremism has emerged as country’s most serious internal security challenge. It assumed serious proportions after 2004 when PWG, MCC, Party Unity along with other splinter groups, merged together to form CPI (Maoist).
A majority of India’s internal security challenges are state-centric. This has been widespread since 1947 beginning with sponsored separatist militancy in Jammu and Kashmir, racial and cultural unrest in states of the northeast, violence in Punjab, Maoist threats spreading across eastern sea board and others. While some of these are externally sponsored and supported, others are by-products of political mismanagement, lack of governance and corruption. The situation in the states today is far from satisfactory.
In today’s context of a nation state, the challenge lies in changing the long-term concept of national security, which we need to understand in a comprehensive sense rather in narrow military terms only. In the absence of the feeling of ‘Nation First’ in the heart of each and every citizen, we would not succeed in attaining freedom from the internal security threats.