NEW DELHI: Jammu & Kashmir governor N N Vohra on Sunday batted for a complete revamp of the nationwide safety apparatus, proposing the creation of a devoted ministry of nationwide safety affairs that will handle all aspects of interior as well as exterior safety.
Delivering the R N Kao Memorial lecture organised via the Research & Analyses Wing (RAW), Vohra stressed out at the "urgent" need to formulate a countrywide safety coverage in consultation with the states and a time-bound action plan that will contain the creation of a national institutional framework for its implementation. Talking about enhancements wanted within the current nationwide safety structure, the previous house secretary sought a devoted nationwide safety cadre of specially-trained officers to man safety businesses.
"Time has perhaps come for a dedicated ministry of national security affairs. The home ministry is overburdened....national security matters need constant oversight...we must lose no time in establishing a national ministry of security affairs that will guard the country on every front," he said.
Vohra also called for enlarging the ambit of National Investigation Agency's powers and responsibilities and empowering it to suo moto soak up investigations of crimes such as cyber offences. That apart, he sought an UK-like oversight mechanism for the intelligence businesses that will read about their expenditure and administration however does not pry much into operational details.
Citing multiplicity of businesses having a look after interior safety and exterior safety and loss of brotherly love amongst them given that they report back to different ministries, the overdependence of the states at the central forces to handle interior safety disturbances and the fact that interior and exterior safety issues had transform increasingly more intertwined, Vohra instructed the gathering comprising of serving and retired officers of the security status quo that "the sectoral approach to national security was erroneous".
"Sources of threat to internal security have links far beyond the neighbourhood," he stated adding that states had steadily been discovered in need of in providing unstinted make stronger to the Union executive in its endeavour to offer protection to the rustic against interior safety demanding situations.
He stated the house ministry had up to now adopted an amiable means vis a vis the states and prefered to deploy central forces or make an intervention most effective in consultation with the state governments.
Delivering the R N Kao Memorial lecture organised via the Research & Analyses Wing (RAW), Vohra stressed out at the "urgent" need to formulate a countrywide safety coverage in consultation with the states and a time-bound action plan that will contain the creation of a national institutional framework for its implementation. Talking about enhancements wanted within the current nationwide safety structure, the previous house secretary sought a devoted nationwide safety cadre of specially-trained officers to man safety businesses.
"Time has perhaps come for a dedicated ministry of national security affairs. The home ministry is overburdened....national security matters need constant oversight...we must lose no time in establishing a national ministry of security affairs that will guard the country on every front," he said.
Vohra also called for enlarging the ambit of National Investigation Agency's powers and responsibilities and empowering it to suo moto soak up investigations of crimes such as cyber offences. That apart, he sought an UK-like oversight mechanism for the intelligence businesses that will read about their expenditure and administration however does not pry much into operational details.
Citing multiplicity of businesses having a look after interior safety and exterior safety and loss of brotherly love amongst them given that they report back to different ministries, the overdependence of the states at the central forces to handle interior safety disturbances and the fact that interior and exterior safety issues had transform increasingly more intertwined, Vohra instructed the gathering comprising of serving and retired officers of the security status quo that "the sectoral approach to national security was erroneous".
"Sources of threat to internal security have links far beyond the neighbourhood," he stated adding that states had steadily been discovered in need of in providing unstinted make stronger to the Union executive in its endeavour to offer protection to the rustic against interior safety demanding situations.
He stated the house ministry had up to now adopted an amiable means vis a vis the states and prefered to deploy central forces or make an intervention most effective in consultation with the state governments.
Time has come for a dedicated ministry of national security affairs, says N N Vohra
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