The Government has launched a multi-pronged strategy to strengthen national security, law enforcement and governance across India. The new measures proposed in the Budget to strengthen internal security in the current financial year inter-alia, include measures to:

1. make Jammu & Kashmir terror-free by eliminating terror networks, preventing infiltration and dismantling terror financing;
2. integrate insurgent groups into the peace process and strengthening border security to curb infiltration in North East;

 

3. eliminate Left-Wing Extremism;
4. implement new criminal laws with an aim to modernize Criminal Justice System by integrating police, judiciary, forensics, prisons and prosecution into a seamless digital system, enhancing crime prevention and justice delivery;
5. improve criminal investigations, deployment of mobile forensic labs in all districts and modernization of state forensic labs;
6. modernize Police and Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) through advanced security equipment, automation and enhanced inter-operability between forces along-with welfare initiatives in housing and healthcare;
7. strengthen cybercrime infrastructure through the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), cyber fraud mitigation centres, Suspect Registry, Cyber-Commando wing and a National Cyber Threat Intelligence system to proactively counter digital threats;
8. enhance border security through technological upgradation such as drones, surveillance systems and fencing along vulnerable borders;

 

9. reinforce coastal security with digitized mapping, monitoring of non-major ports, and enhanced coordination among the Indian Coast Guard, Navy and coastal states;
10. Have zero-tolerance for narcotic drugs and psychotropic Substances;
11. improve national disaster preparedness through community participation, better-equipped state disaster response forces and international cooperation; and
12. modernize immigration systems by streamlining visa issuance, e-visas and fast-track clearance for trusted travellers at major international airports.

 

This was stated by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs Shri Nityanand Rai in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha.

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