Terrorism is a global menace spreaded throughout the world. The terrorism denotes the focal point of the problem. Terrorism involves violence against public, with a political or religious desire. Terrorist acts are organised so as to attract large attention. Terrorism use acts of violence for frightening the group of peoples or pressuring the government to do or not to do something. Many countries give aid and dangerous weapons to the terrorist groups in order to weaken the other country. In most cases, terrorism is a bludgeon of small group, fighting against government that is more well-known and better armed. National security, the very indispensable component of the nation has been undergoing many ups and downs preserving the national security is ever intense challenge for the country which is threatened from internal as well as external dimension. In India, the diverse forms of terrorism in different parts in the country challenged the nation in various forms and dimensions. Terrorism in India, as stated by the Home Ministry, poses a huge threat to the people of India. Terrorism is a vague variable not effectively measured or quantified because of its various manifestations. However, it needs a serious and precise examination. Defining terrorism in the contemporary time is a challenge. Let’s first analyse what are the different types of terrorism.
Keywords: Terrorism, National Security, Indian Scenario, Mumbai Police, Ministry of Home Affairs.
INTERNAL SECURITY CHALLENGES AND TERRORISM IN INDIA:
Internal security has a very crucial role in the country to flourish its stability in the favour of the growth, and peaceful existence of the nation historically. The problems of internal security witness in India from the early time of independence era, it aggradises the whole nation and the country became the most sensitive state of multiple internal security disturbances. Internal security of any country is first priority to protect and hold the country’s sovereignty and integrity. Country’s difference in the land, religion and population brought enormous diversities in line with ethnicity, religion, language, culture and civilization bring into being several internal security problems in India. The internal security threats in a country constitute military and non-military nature where, the former one over ruled with swift actions and immediate impacts. Nowadays, terrorism has become the weapon of the weak against the strong. The small religious or ethnic terrorist groups waging war against the nation or the govt. by using the sophisticated means of terrorism in India is entirely different from the terrorism of all other countries. The lion share of the country’s land is affected by terrorism of one form or another. A study conducted by the central agencies in 2009 reveals that 400 districts in India were affected by varied forms of terrorism, whereas only 250 districts were affected by insurgency or militancy in three years ago. The sustained height of terrorism in many of the north eastern states J&K, urban centres and growing profile of naxal insurgencies reminds terrorism is growing as the permanent industry on the hinterland.