MODERNISING THE PARAMILITARY

Strict maintenance of law and order by deploying modern technology and contemporary tactics is extremely crucial for maintaining India’s internal stability and territorial integrity. Now is the time to go full-throttle on paramilitary modernisation, writes AMARTYA SINHA

- AMARTYA SINHA

Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) or paramilitary forces in public parlance are always considered a crucial part of India’s internal security mechanism, without which the war against anti-national elements can’t be taken to a logical conclusion and sociopolitical order can’t be maintained. While the three branches of the Indian Armed Forces (Army, Navy and Air Force) are expected to counter external security threats at the border, paramilitary organisations such as Assam Rifles, Border Security Force (BSF), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), and National Security Guard (NSG) are expected to reign in internal sub-conventional level threats emanating from isolated pockets and closely guard the nation’s vital strategic installations from hostile forces. It goes without any saying that these troopers need better arms and ammunitions along with cutting edge communication gadgets to live up to the best of national leadership’s expectations.

Replacing old service rifles