UPSC Mains 2013 · GS III · Q25 · 10 marks · 200 words

How far are India’s internal security challenges linked with border management particularly in view of the long porous borders with most countries of South Asia and Myanmar ?

हिन्दी में

दक्षिण एशिया के अधिकतर देशों तथा मयनमार से लगी विशेषकर लम्बी छिद्रिल सीमाओं की दृष्टि से भारत की आंतरिक सुरक्षा की चुनौतियाँ सीमा प्रबंधन से कैसे जुड़ी हैं ?

How a topper answered the closest question

Toppers wrote this one in a test series: “How are internal security challenges related to peace in neighboring countries? Explain with special reference to instability on India's eastern frontier.”

Kunal RastogiAIR 15 · CSE 2023 · 230 wordsTheir whole copy

Opening · a quotation

"We can change our friends, but not our neighbours" - Atal Vajpayee

Neighbours internal peace are quintessential in ensuring national security as common borders allow problems to move without passports (Kofi Annan) Peace in neighbours related to internal security

Body · points and prose

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  • Afghanistan: Talibane Takeover, grave polycrisis
  • Pakistan: [pointing to region]
  • China: (Uyghur muslim (camps))
  • Myanmar: (coup)
  • Nepal: [boxed]
  • Bhutan: (cartographic agression by china)
  • Bangladesh: (rising fundamentalism)
  • Sri lanka: financial instability Fig 1: Internal Security challenge: neighbours

Peace in neighbours related to internal security

  1. Refugee Crisis - unbridled flow of illegal migrants creates law & order

eg → Rohingyas Manipur Crisis.

  1. Border ceasefire violation - neighbouring State using aggresive rhetoric to divert their attention from internal crisis. eg → Pakistan.

  2. Reduced Economic trade results in migration of border people. eg → Arunachal pradesh (Apatani) → Migrating

  3. Demographic inversion - bangladeshi immigrants escaping Pak in 1971 created social strife in Assam → NRC debate.

  4. IB reports suggest safe harbours being provided to internal militant groups like ULFA, KNO in Myanmar

  5. Spread of terrorism - RAW report Suggest Rohingyas operating sleeper cell in India.

Way to counter above

  1. Full Gujral doctrine and Act East policy to allow peace in Myanmar → take back refugees.
  2. Israel model of Smart Fencing to prohibit illegal migrants.
  3. Rationalise 16 Km FMZ by using drones for surveillance.
  4. Vibrant Village programme to create goodwill in border villages.
  5. Update NRC to weed out illegal migrants from North-East.

Close · a way forward

Above Steps would enable to counter the unstable stability and durable disorder (2nd ARC) in North East region thus giving rise to EK Bharat Sreshht Bharat.

4 more toppers’ answers to this question, part by part, and how they all approached it: open the question.

Toppers’ answers to other close questions

Source: UPSC, Civil Services (Main) Examination 2013, General Studies Paper III, Q25. The paper on upsc.gov.in. Themes and links to toppers’ answers are by UPSC Grade, not by UPSC.