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National Security Council (India)

राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा परिषद् Rāṣṭrīya Surakṣā Pariṣad
Agency overview
Formed	19 November 1998; 27 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 DIBTapan Deka,IPS, Special National Security Advisor Lieutenant GeneralN. S. Raja Subramani, Chief Military Advisor Rajinder Khanna[2], Additional National Security Advisor. T V Ravichandran, Deputy National Security Advisor (Technology and intelligence). Anish Dayal 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
Child agency	National Security Law Division

TheNational Security Council (NSC) (IAST:Rāṣṭrīya Surakṣā Pariṣad) of India is an executive government body tasked with advising thePrime Minister of India on matters ofnational security andforeign policy. It was established by the former prime minister of IndiaAtal Bihari Vajpayee on 19 November 1998, withBrajesh Mishra as the firstNational Security Advisor.

Besides theNational Security Advisor (NSA), theChief of Defence Staff (CDS), the Additional National Security Advisor, the Deputy National Security Advisors, theMinisters ofDefence,External Affairs,Home,Finance of theGovernment of India, and the vice chairman of theNITI Aayog are members of the National Security Council.

Under the revamp of National Security Council Secretariat on 1 July 2024 the post of AdditionalNational 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 thePrime Minister's Office in the other ongoing security challenges.^[3]

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]

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

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, academicians 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 lateK. Subrahmanyam produced a draftNuclear 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 SecretaryShyam Saran, ended in January 2015. It had 14 members.

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

The board is again reconstituted in April 2025 withAlok 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:

The Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) of theGovernment of India analyses intelligence data from theIntelligence Bureau,Research and Analysis Wing and the Directorates ofMilitary,Naval andAir Intelligence and thus analyses both domestic and foreign intelligence. The JIC has its own Secretariat that works under theCabinet Secretariat.

National Cyber Security Strategy is formulated by the Office ofNational 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 theNational 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'sComputer 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 asTrusted Products fromTrusted Sources.^[11][12]

• Cabinet Committee on Security
• List of Indian Intelligence agencies

• Official website of the National Security Advisory BoardArchived 25 June 2017 at theWayback Machine
• Trusted Telecom Portal - National Security Directive on Telecommunication Sector^{[permanent dead link]}
• Center for Contemporary Conflict - Indian Internal Security and Intelligence Organization
• Espionage Info - India, Intelligence and Security
• FAS - Directorate for Inter-Services IntelligenceArchived 11 June 2014 at theWayback Machine
• Global Security - India Intelligence and Security Agencies

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