National Security Council (India)

Government security agency in India

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National Security Council (India)राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा परिषद्
Rāṣṭrīya Surakṣā Pariṣad
Hindi pronunciation: [raːʂʈrɪjə sʊrəkʂaː pərɪʂəd]

Agency overview
Formed| 19 November 1998; 26 years ago (1998-11-19)
Jurisdiction| Government of India
Headquarters| National Security Council Secretariat, Sardar Patel Bhawan, Sansad Marg, New Delhi \- 110001[1]
Agency executives|

* Ajit Kumar Doval, National Security Advisor
* Rajinder Khanna[2], Additional National Security Advisor.
* T V Ravichandran, Deputy National Security Advisor (Technology and intelligence).
* Pankaj Kumar Singh, Deputy National Security Advisor (Internal Affairs).
* Pavan Kapoor, Deputy National Security Advisor (Strategic and Foreign Affairs).
* Air Marshal Sandeep Singh(retd), Military Advisor
* Vice Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta(retd), National Maritime Security Coordinator
* Lieutenant General M U Nair, National Cyber Security Coordinator

Child agency|

* National Security Law Division

The National Security Council (NSC) (IAST: Rāṣṭrīya Surakṣā Pariṣad) of India is an executive government body tasked with advising the prime Minister of India on matters of national security and foreign policy. It was established by the former prime minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee on 19 November 1998, with Brajesh Mishra as the first National Security Advisor.

## Members

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Besides the National Security Advisor (NSA), Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), the Additional National Security Advisor, the Deputy National Security Advisors, the Ministers of Defence, External Affairs, Home, Finance of the Government of India, and the vice chairman of the NITI Aayog are members of the National Security Council.

Under the revamp of National Security Council Secretariat on 1 July 2024 the post of Additional National Security Advisor was filled up in the National Security Council Secretariat which was vacant till now, this move now frees up the NSA from the task of internal security management and threat analysis which will from now be looked upon by the Additional NSA sparing the NSA to directly assist the Prime Minister's Office in the other ongoing security challenges.[3]

## Organisational Structure

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The NSC is the apex body of the three-tiered structure of the national security management system in India which exercises its power through National Security Council Secretariat having four verticals namely Strategic Planning, Internal Affairs, Intelligence and Technology and a Military vertical. The three tiers of the National Security Council are the Strategic Policy Group, the National Security Advisory Board and a secretariat from the Joint Intelligence Committee.[4][5]

### Strategic Policy Group

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The Strategic Policy Group is the first level of the three-tier structure of the National Security Council. It forms the nucleus of the decision-making apparatus of the NSC. National Security Advisor Ajit Doval is the chairman of the group and it consists of the following members:

* Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog (Suman Bery)
* Cabinet Secretary (T. V. Somanathan, IAS)
* Chief of Defence Staff (General Anil Chauhan)
* Chief of the Army Staff (General Upendra Dwivedi)
* Chief of the Naval Staff (Admiral Dinesh Tripathi)
* Chief of the Air Staff (Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh)
* Governor, Reserve Bank of India (Sanjay Malhotra)
* Foreign Secretary (Vikram Misri, IFS)
* Defence Secretary (Rajesh Kumar Singh, IAS)
* Home Secretary (Govind Mohan, IAS)
* Finance Secretary (Ajay Seth, IAS)
* Secretary, R&AW (Ravi Sinha, IPS)
* Director General, Defence Intelligence Agency (Lieutenant General D S Rana)
* Director, Intelligence Bureau (Tapan Deka, IPS)
* Secretary, Defence Production (Sanjeev Kumar, IAS)
* Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister (G. Satheesh Reddy)
* Chairman of Defence Research and Development Organisation (Samir V. Kamat)
* Secretary (Atomic Energy) and ex-officio Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission (Ajit Kumar Mohanty)
* Secretary (Space) and ex-officio Chairman, Indian Space Research Organization (V. Narayanan)

The Strategic Policy Group undertakes the Strategic Defence Review, a blueprint of short and long term security threats, as well as possible policy options on a priority basis.

### National Security Advisory Board

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The brainchild of the first National Security Advisor (NSA), Brajesh Mishra, a former member of Indian Foreign Service. The National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) consists of a group of eminent national security experts outside of the government.[6] Members are usually senior retired officials, civilian as well as military, academicias and distinguished members of civil society drawn from and having expertise in Internal and External Security, Foreign Affairs, Defence, Science & Technology and Economic Affairs.

The first NSAB, constituted in December 1998, headed by the late K. Subrahmanyam produced a draft Nuclear Doctrine for the country in 2001, a Strategic Defence Review in 2002 and a National Security Review in 2007.[7]

The board meets at least once a month, and more frequently as required. It provides a long-term prognosis and analysis to the NSC and recommends solutions and address policy issues referred to it. Initially the board was constituted for one year, but since 2004–06, the board has been reconstituted for two years.[8]

The tenure of the previous NSAB, headed by former Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran, ended in January 2015. It had 14 members.

The new board was re-constituted in July 2018, with P. S. Raghavan, former Indian Ambassador to Russia (2014–16), as its head. It had a tenure of two years.[7]

The board is again reconstituted in April 2025 with Alok Joshi as Chairman, NSAB.[9]It currently has 7 members and advices NSC on various security policy formulation and goals, and reports to the NSA on the ongoing development. The NSAB has currently two subordinate bodies working under it : (i) National Information Board (NIB) and (ii) Technology Coordination Group (TCG).

Currently the board has the following members:

Members  | Experience

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Alok Joshi | Ex R&AW Chief
Air Marshal Pankaj Mohan Sinha | Former AOC-in-C, Western Air Command
Lt Gen A K Singh | Former GOC-in-C, Southern Army Command
Rear Admiral Monty Khanna  | Former Faculty, Defense Services Staff College, Wellington
Rajiv Ranjan Singh, IPS  | Former Special Director, Intelligence Bureau
Manmohan Singh, IPS  | Former Special Director, Intelligence Bureau
D. Bala Venkatesh Varma, IFS  | Former Ambassador of India to Russia
Prof. Kamakoti Veezhinathan | Director, IIT Madras and Technology Expert[10]

### Joint Intelligence Committee

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The Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) of the Government of India analyses intelligence data from the Intelligence Bureau, Research and Analysis Wing and the Directorates of Military, Naval and Air Intelligence and thus analyses both domestic and foreign intelligence. The JIC has its own Secretariat that works under the Cabinet Secretariat.

### Cyber Security

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National Cyber Security Strategy is formulated by the Office of National Cyber Security Coordinator at the National Security Council Secretariat. The National Security Council Secretariat and National Information Board headed by National Security Adviser to whom National Cyber Coordination Centre reports are at working under the cyber security surveillance helping in framing India's cyber security policy. It aims to protect the cyber space including critical information infrastructure from attack, damage, misuse and economic espionage.

In 2014 the National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre under the National Technical Research Organisation mandated the protection of critical information infrastructure. In 2015, the Office of National Cyber Security Coordinator was created to advice the Prime Minister on strategic cyber security issues. In the case of nodal entity, India's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-in) is playing a crucial role under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology(MEITY).

On 15 June 2021, the Government of India launched the Trusted Telecom Portal signalling the coming into effect of the National Security Directive on Telecommunication Sector (NSDTS). Consequently, with effect from 15 June 2021 the Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) are mandatorily required to connect in their networks only those new devices which are designated as Trusted Products from Trusted Sources.[11][12]

## See also

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* India portal

* Cabinet Committee on Security
* List of Indian Intelligence agencies

## References

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1. ^ "Contact Us". National Security Advisory Board. Archived from the original on 27 February 2017.
2. ^ "India's revamped security set-up gets IPS, intelligence influx". 5 January 2018.
3. ^ "Appointment of Additional National Security Advisor". NDTV. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
4. ^ "About NSAB". National Security Advisory Board. Archived from the original on 16 April 2017. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
5. ^ "National Security Council". ALLGOV INDIA.
6. ^ Gupta, Arvind. "Brajesh Mishra's Legacy to National Security and Diplomacy". Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
7. ^ a b "National Security Advisory Board reconstituted with ex-envoy to Russia Raghavan as head". The Economic Times. 13 July 2018. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
8. ^ "National Security Advisory Board". 16 April 2017. Archived from the original on 16 April 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
9. ^ "NSAB Revamp".
10. ^ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/former-raw-chief-to-head-revamped-national-security-advisory-board/articleshow/120776092.cms
11. ^ "Launch of the Trusted Telecom Portal for implementation of the National Security Directive on Telecommunication Sector" (PDF). 15 June 2020.
12. ^ www.ETTelecom.com. "Indian government launches trusted telecom portal - ET Telecom". ETTelecom.com. Retrieved 16 June 2021.

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