Shah: India's rising stature to invite new security challenges

NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah Saturday said the Modi government has demonstrated strong political will and reaffirmed its zero-tolerance policy against terrorism in a remarkable manner before the world through Operation Sindoor .

Addressing the eighth National Security Strategies Conference (NCSC) here, which over the last two days brought heads and senior officers of the central armed police forces (CAPFs), central police organisations (CPOs), DGPs of states and UTs, young police officers and domain experts on one platform to deliberate on subjects related to internal security, Shah asked security agencies to establish a reliable ecosystem for real-time data sharing to address the increasing challenges faced by the country as one of the world's fastest emerging economies.

"We must stay more vigilant and tackle problems with heightened awareness. All agencies must make security-first approach, habitual alertness and coordination an integral part of their working methodology," he told 800 officers attending the conference.

With India's economy having risen to the fourth position globally, Shah observed that India was now a world leader in new and emerging technologies, start-ups, green energy and innovations. He emphasised that India's rising stature would lead to increasing national security challenges in the years to come, and called for better coordination to tackle them. He directed that homogenous teams of central and state agencies be formed to develop strategies, implement and monitor them. Shah urged young officers to be encouraged to use national databases like Natgrid, Nidaan, iMoT and CBI's fugitive database by having them incorporated in training programmes.