Amit Shah urges states to give top priority to national security issues

India

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New
Delhi,
Aug
18:
Union
Home
Minister
Amit
Shah
on
Thursday
appealed
to
all
states
to
give
top
priority
to
the
issues
related
to
national
security.

Shah
was
addressing
the
National
Security
Strategies
(NSS)
Conference
2022,
which
was
attended
by
the
top
brass
of
the
country’s
police
forces.

The
two-day
conference
held
in
Delhi
discussed
subjects
like
cryptocurrency,
counter-drone
technology,
cyber
and
social
media
surveillance,
emerging
challenges
due
to
5G,
demographic
changes
and
growing
radicalisation
in
border
areas.

Shah
said
it
was
the
responsibility
of
the
director
generals
of
police
(DGPs)
to
gather
all
technical
and
strategic
information
in
their
states,
especially
in
the
border
districts.

The
DGPs
of
border
states
should
keep
a
watchful
eye
on
the
demographic
changes
taking
place
in
border
areas,
he
said.

The
home
minister
further
said
that
since
becoming
the
prime
minister
in
2014,
Narendra
Modi
has
not
only
given
a
thrust
to
internal
security
of
the
country
but
has
also
strengthened
the
mechanism
to
face
challenges.

He
said
states
should
give
top
priority
to
the
issues
related
to
national
security
as
this
is
the
fight
for
the
future
of
the
country
and
the
youth,
for
which
everyone
has
to
come
together
and
win
at
any
cost.

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Shah
added
that
in
the
field
of
internal
security,
the
government
has
achieved
greater
success
in
dealing
with
terrorism
in
Jammu
and
Kashmir,
various
extremist
groups
in
the
northeast
and
Left
Wing
Extremism.

Under
Modi’s
leadership,
the
central
government
has
enacted
many
new
laws,
increased
coordination
with
states,
increased
budgetary
allocations
and
made
optimum
use
of
technology,
he
said.

”The
prime
minister
has
tried
to
change
the
nature
of
the
DGP
conference
since
2014,
and
we
see
that
we
have
been
successful
in
finding
solutions
to
many
problems,” the
Union
home
minister
said.

Shah
said
a
system
has
been
developed
for
the
first
time
in
the
country
in
the
form
of
the
National
Automatic
Fingerprint
Identification
System
(NAFIS)
and
it
should
percolate
down
to
the
grassroots
level.

Referring
to
the
problems
of
circulation
of
narcotics,
he
said
it
was
not
enough
to
just
catch
a
consignment
since
the
complete
uprooting
of
the
drugs
network
and
getting
to
the
bottom
of
its
source
and
destination
are
of
utmost
necessity.

The
home
minister
said
the
central
government
was
preparing
a
database
of
different
types
of
crimes,
and
for
the
first
time,
with
a
scientific
approach,
so
much
work
has
been
done
on
so
many
fronts
simultaneously.

”We
have
to
make
good
use
of
5G
technology
to
strengthen
the
security
system,”
he
said.

Shah
said
the
basic
principle
of
a
modern
intelligence
agency
should
not
be
”need
to
know”
but
”need
to
share”
and
”duty
to
share”,
because
no
success
will
come
unless
the
approach
changes.

”Along
with
technology,
we
should
also
give
equal
thrust
to
the
use
of
human
intelligence,” he
said,
adding
this
conference
helps
young
officers
gather
in-depth
knowledge
on
issues
of
national
security.

The
home
minister
said
the
sessions
selected
for
deliberation
in
the
last
two
days
were
relevant
and
important,
and
discussions
were
held
on
counter-terror
and
counter-radicalisation,
challenges
of
Maoist
overground
and
front
organisations,
cryptocurrency,
counter-drone
technology,
cyber
​​and
social
media
surveillance,
protection
of
islands,
emerging
challenges
due
to
5G,
demographic
changes
and
growing
radicalisation
in
border
areas.