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  • Govt. to spend Rs 24,000 crore to modernise police force

    Govt. to spend Rs 24,000 crore to modernise police force

    Why in the News

    The Union government has told the Supreme Court that it has begun implementing an umbrella Police Modernisation Mission worth Rs 24,000 crore over the next five years.

    What is the Police Modernisation Mission?

    1. Its form: It is an umbrella scheme, meaning several police modernisation components are funded through a single mission rather than as separate schemes.
    2. Its size and horizon: The outlay is Rs 24,000 crore, to be spent over five years.
    3. Who it covers: It targets the internal security capabilities of both State police forces and the Central Armed Police Forces.
    4. Its stated route: The capability gain is to come through greater use of technology, which is the only delivery mechanism named in the submission.

    Why was the disclosure made in a court proceeding?

    1. The proceeding was begun by the Court itself: The suo motu case was initiated in 2025 after the Court took note of a media report on non functional CCTV cameras at Udaipur police stations.
    2. The Court widened it into a compliance review: It sought compliance reports from the Centre, the States and the Union Territories on the installation and functioning of cameras.
    3. The Bench: The matter is before a Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta, with the Centre represented by an Additional Solicitor-General.
    4. The mission answers the compliance question with an outlay: The Centre’s response to a record of equipment not working is a larger programme to buy equipment, and no separate maintenance or functioning guarantee was placed before the Court.

    What did Paramvir Singh Saini versus Baljit Singh require?

    1. Cameras at specified locations: The 2021 judgment mandated CCTV cameras at key locations in police stations, including lock ups and the rooms of inspectors and sub-inspectors.
    2. Cameras of a specified capability: The directions required night vision and audio recording, so that an interrogation is recorded and not merely observed.
    3. Footage retention: Recordings were to be preserved for a stated minimum period, so that a complaint filed months later can still be tested against the record.
    4. Oversight bodies: State level and district level oversight committees were to be constituted to purchase, maintain and monitor the systems and to review footage.
    5. Notice to the public: Police stations were to display notices telling visitors that the premises are under camera cover and that a complaint of human rights violation may be made.

    Challenges to the Police Modernisation Mission

    1. Modernisation money has historically gone unspent: Releases under police modernisation schemes stall on State matching shares and pending utilisation certificates. Eg. Successive Comptroller and Auditor General audits have flagged underutilisation of police modernisation grants by States.
      The Fix: Release tranches against verified physical milestones, meaning equipment installed and functioning, rather than against expenditure statements.
    2. Central money buys equipment, not reform: Police is a State subject under Entry 2 of the State List, so a central mission can fund hardware without touching recruitment, tenure or accountability. Eg. Directions in Prakash Singh versus Union of India (2006) on fixed tenure and a State Security Commission remain only partly implemented across States.
      The Fix: Condition a share of each State’s mission grant on enactment of the police board and fixed tenure directions.
    3. Technology fails at the point of maintenance: Installed systems stop working for want of annual maintenance contracts, spares and power backup, and the capital grant does not cover them. Eg. Audits have found Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems terminals installed but not in use at a large number of police stations.
      The Fix: Fund a five year maintenance and consumables line inside each equipment sanction, instead of leaving it as a separate State liability.
    4. Manpower shortfall caps what technology can deliver: A camera or a database still needs an officer to operate, review and act on it, and State forces run well below sanctioned strength. Eg. Bureau of Police Research and Development data records an actual police strength close to 150 personnel per lakh population, against the United Nations recommended figure of 222.
      The Fix: Tie mission approval to a State recruitment schedule closing sanctioned vacancies across the same five years.
    5. Surveillance capacity grows faster than the oversight around it: Equipment installed for accountability also expands the force’s own recording and identification capability, with no independent auditor of its use. Eg. Access logs for police station footage are held and reviewed by the same force whose conduct the footage records.
      The Fix: Place footage access logs and retention compliance under an independent State level oversight body publishing an annual report.

    Conclusion

    The mission has moved from announcement to implementation, and it was disclosed in a proceeding about equipment already mandated and not functioning. Buying capability and sustaining it are different problems, and only the first has an outlay attached to it. The next point to watch is the compliance reports the Court has sought from the Centre, the States and the Union Territories, which is where the gap between equipment sanctioned and equipment working becomes visible.

    Back2Basics: Central Armed Police Forces

    1. What they are: Seven armed forces of the Union under the Ministry of Home Affairs, distinct both from the armed forces under the Ministry of Defence and from State police.
    2. The seven forces: Central Reserve Police Force, Border Security Force, Central Industrial Security Force, Indo-Tibetan Border Police, Sashastra Seema Bal, Assam Rifles and the National Security Guard.
    3. How they are used: They are deployed to States on requisition for internal security duty, election duty and disaster response, and guard specified international border sectors.
    4. Command and recruitment: Each is headed by a Director General, with officer recruitment through the Union Public Service Commission and other ranks through the Staff Selection Commission.

    [2023, GS3, 15 marks] What are the internal security challenges being faced by India? Give out the role of Central Intelligence and Investigative Agencies tasked to counter such threats.

  • SC seeks govt. explanation on IPS deputation in CAPFs

    SC seeks govt. explanation on IPS deputation in CAPFs

    Why in the News

    The Supreme Court has sought an explanation from the Union Home Secretary on the implementation of its judgment of 23 May 2025, which directed the Centre to progressively reduce the deputation of Indian Police Service (IPS) officers to senior posts in the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs).

    What did the 2025 judgment direct?

    1. The direction: Deputation posts held by IPS officers in the Senior Administrative Grade (SAG), the level up to the rank of Inspector General, in the CAPFs were to be progressively reduced over a period of time, within an outer limit of two years.
    2. The Bench: The ruling was delivered by a two judge Bench, one of whose members has since retired.
    3. The direction has been tested once already: The Union Home Ministry’s review petition against the judgment was dismissed on 28 October 2025.

    What has the Centre reported as compliance?

    1. A cadre review across every force: Following the dismissal of the review petition, all CAPFs were directed to submit detailed cadre review proposals, which the Ministry examined and forwarded to the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) with the Home Minister’s approval.
    2. The proposals are in the pipeline, dated: Cadre review proposals for the CRPF, BSF, CISF, ITBP and SSB were sent between 27 July and 3 August 2026, and were forwarded to the Department of Expenditure with the DoPT’s observations and recommendations on 17 August.
    3. The remaining steps have not been taken: After the Department of Expenditure comments, the proposals go to the Cadre Review Committee headed by the Cabinet Secretary, whose recommendations are then to be considered for approval by the competent authority.
    4. Other measures claimed: The Ministry stated that it had also examined the issue of IPS deputation and undertaken statutory changes.

    Why does the Court read the compliance record differently?

    1. Deputations continued after the judgment: An affidavit informed the Court that 46 IPS officers have been brought on deputation to the CAPFs up to the SAG level since the 2025 ruling.
    2. The Bench questioned the premise of the practice: It asked whether there are no competent officers within the CAPFs to hold responsible positions, and described the position as totally wrong.
    3. The service record cited against the practice: Officers with over 25 years of service defend the borders and have made supreme sacrifices, and the Bench held that a strong lobby leaves those cadre officers completely stifled.

    How does the CAPFs (General Administration) Act, 2026 change the dispute?

    1. A statute now occupies the ground the judgment covered: The Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Act, 2026 was published in the Gazette on 9 April, and the stated effect is to circumvent the 2025 judgment.
    2. The Act is itself under challenge: Five writ petitions challenging the legislation have been filed and are listed for hearing on 18 November.
    3. The affected constituency is organised: Members of the All Ex-Paramilitary Forces Welfare Association staged protests against the Bill before its enactment.
    4. The next date on the compliance track: The contempt matter is listed for hearing on 22 September.

    Challenges to reducing IPS deputation in the CAPFs

    1. The forces were designed around an officer shortfall they never closed: Direct entry recruitment into CAPF cadres has not kept pace with sanctioned strength at senior levels, which is the stated justification for deputation in the first place. Eg. Vacancies across CAPF officer ranks have been reported repeatedly to Parliament by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
      The Fix: Fix a dated recruitment and promotion calendar in each cadre review, so the shortfall that justifies deputation is closed rather than carried forward.
    2. Cadre review is an executive process with no judicial deadline attached: Every stage between a force’s proposal and the competent authority’s approval is discretionary in timing. Eg. The proposals here moved between three departments over several months without reaching the Cadre Review Committee.
      The Fix: Attach an outer time limit to each stage of the cadre review chain, reported to the Court as a compliance schedule rather than as a status update.
    3. Command experience is concentrated where promotion is blocked: Officers who spend a full career in one force acquire the operational knowledge that senior posts need, and are then passed over at exactly that level. Eg. Border guarding, counter insurgency and industrial security each demand force specific expertise that a short deputation tenure cannot build.
      The Fix: Reserve a fixed proportion of Inspector General level posts in each force for cadre officers, notified in the recruitment rules rather than settled case by case.
    4. A statute can displace a judicial direction unless the underlying defect is cured: New legislation on the same subject shifts the dispute from contempt to constitutional validity and restarts the litigation clock. Eg. The five writ petitions against the 2026 Act put the question back at the beginning after a judgment and a dismissed review.
      The Fix: Amend the recruitment rules of each force to give effect to the direction, so compliance rests on subordinate legislation the Court has already read rather than on a fresh statute.
    5. Organisational identity is unresolved in law: The forces are described as paramilitary in public and as police organisations in service rules, and the ambiguity drives the parity claims on pay, pension and command. Eg. The demand for organised group A service status for CAPF cadres was itself settled only through litigation.
      The Fix: Settle the service classification of each force explicitly in the rules framed under the governing statute, so command structure follows from a stated status.

    Conclusion

    The question before the Court has changed shape since it was first answered. It began as a service dispute about who commands a force, moved to whether a direction on that dispute was being implemented, and now turns on whether a statute passed after the judgment can occupy the same ground. That last question is the one that decides the other two, and it is the pending challenge to the new Act, not the contempt proceeding, that will settle it. What to watch is whether the recruitment rules of the individual forces are amended at all, because a direction that never reaches the rules governing promotion has not been implemented whatever the affidavits record.

    Back2Basics: Central Armed Police Forces

    1. What they are: Seven armed forces of the Union under the Ministry of Home Affairs, distinct from the armed forces under the Ministry of Defence and from the State police, raised for internal security and border guarding duties.
    2. The seven forces: Assam Rifles, Border Security Force, Central Industrial Security Force, Central Reserve Police Force, Indo-Tibetan Border Police, National Security Guard and Sashastra Seema Bal.
    3. Command structure: Each force has its own directly recruited cadre, and senior posts are filled by a combination of that cadre and IPS officers on deputation from State cadres.
    4. Constitutional basis: They are raised under Entry 2A of the Union List, which covers deployment of any armed force of the Union in a State in aid of the civil power.

    [2023, GS3, 15 marks] What are the internal security challenges being faced by India? Give out the role of Central Intelligence and Investigative Agencies tasked to counter such threats.”

  • CRPF forms core group to review self-harm cases after a spate of suicides

    Why in the News

    The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has constituted a high level core group to conduct monthly reviews of self harm cases among its personnel. Deaths by suicide in the force touched a five year high of 59 in 2025, which moves the response from unit level handling of individual incidents to a standing headquarters mechanism.

    What is the Central Reserve Police Force?

    1. Mandate: The Central Reserve Police Force is the Union’s principal internal security force, deployed on requisition to States for counter insurgency, anti Left Wing Extremism operations, law and order duty and election security.
    2. Command: It functions under the Ministry of Home Affairs and is headed by a Director General, with operations organised through executive battalions and specialised wings.
    3. Scale: It is the largest of the Central Armed Police Forces, with a sanctioned strength above three lakh personnel spread across every State and Union Territory.

    What do the suicide figures in the force since 2021 show?

    1. Five year peak in 2025: Fifty nine CRPF personnel died by suicide in 2025, the highest figure in the five year series and the trigger for the present review mechanism.
    2. The full series: The force recorded 57 such deaths in 2021, 43 in 2022, 57 in 2023, 46 in 2024 and 59 in 2025.
    3. The current year: Nineteen such deaths were reported till 30 May 2026.
    4. No downward trend: The numbers oscillate within a narrow band rather than falling, which indicates that existing unit level welfare measures have not shifted the underlying pattern.
    5. Deaths on duty: The figures from 2021 to May 2026 show that several of these deaths took place while the personnel were on duty, not while on leave or at home.

    Why has a headquarters level core group been created rather than leaving reviews to individual units?

    1. A structured mechanism: Senior officers at a meeting in the CRPF headquarters earlier this month identified the absence of a structured mechanism to examine such incidents as the gap to be closed.
    2. Recurring risk factors: A unit examining a single death cannot detect a factor that repeats across battalions, so pattern identification requires a body sitting above the unit.
    3. Command level ownership: The core group is headed by the Director General of the force, which places accountability for prevention at the apex of the command chain rather than with the battalion commandant.
    4. Fixed periodicity: The group is to meet every month, converting review from an event triggered by a death into a standing calendar obligation.
    5. Four review heads: Each monthly meeting is to cover the self harm incidents reported, the causes and circumstances behind them, the availability and use of welfare or psychological support, and the preventive steps taken by the unit concerned.

    What drives self harm among central armed police force personnel?

    1. Prolonged separation from family: Personnel serve long tenures in field formations away from their home States, with leave frequently curtailed during active operations.
    2. Operational stress in insurgency theatres: Extended deployment in Left Wing Extremism affected districts and in Jammu and Kashmir combines physical risk with an absence of privacy and rest.
    3. Domestic and financial distress: Land disputes, family illness and debt at the home station cannot be attended to from a field posting, and the inability to act is itself a stressor.
    4. Grievance and leave denial: Perceived unfairness in leave sanction, posting and promotion converts an administrative decision into a personal grievance with no accessible appeal.
    5. Stigma around psychological help: Seeking counselling is read within the force as an admission of unfitness for armed duty, which suppresses the demand for the support that does exist.

    What does the National Human Rights Commission’s intervention add to the response?

    1. External scrutiny: The National Human Rights Commission took note of the rising figures last week and sought reports from the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Director General of the force.
    2. Reframing the issue as a rights question: The Commission’s entry treats deaths in service as a question of the State’s obligation to its own personnel rather than as an internal personnel matter.
    3. A reporting obligation: A requisition from the Commission compels a written response from both the administrative ministry and the force, creating a record that survives changes in command.
    4. Timing: The core group’s formation and the Commission’s notice fall in the same month, so the force’s internal mechanism now operates under an external deadline.

    Challenges to the CRPF’s self harm prevention mechanism

    1. A review body without a treatment capacity: A monthly review can classify causes but cannot supply the clinical care the classification points to, and psychiatrist and counsellor strength in the central armed police forces remains far below the deployed strength. Eg. Composite hospitals of the central armed police forces routinely operate with a single mental health specialist serving several battalions spread across districts.
    2. Under reporting of distress: Personnel avoid recording psychological symptoms because a medical entry can affect weapon issue, posting and promotion prospects. Eg. Screening drives in armed forces and central police organisations consistently record self reported distress far below the levels found in anonymous surveys of the same units.
    3. Housing and family accommodation deficit: Family accommodation available to central armed police force personnel falls well short of the authorised requirement, which keeps families separated even at peace stations. Eg. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs has repeatedly recorded a housing satisfaction ratio below half the sanctioned entitlement across the central armed police forces.
    4. Leave and rotation practice: Announced entitlements are overridden by operational exigency in the very theatres where the stress is highest. Eg. The force’s initiative to give personnel around 100 days with their families each year has proved hardest to implement in the Left Wing Extremism theatre where deployment density is greatest.
    5. Weapon access at the point of crisis: Personnel on duty carry service weapons continuously, which removes the interval between intent and act that prevention depends on. Eg. Several of the deaths recorded between 2021 and May 2026 occurred while the personnel were on duty, when the service weapon was in hand.
    6. Fratricide and grievance escalation: Unresolved interpersonal grievance within a small deployed unit escalates into violence against colleagues as well as self harm. Eg. Fratricide incidents in central armed police force camps have prompted the Bureau of Police Research and Development to study stress and grievance handling in deployed units.

    Conclusion

    The Central Reserve Police Force has moved suicide prevention from ad hoc unit level handling to a monthly review chaired by its Director General, after 2025 recorded the highest figure in five years. The immediate status is that the core group stands constituted and the National Human Rights Commission has sought reports from the Ministry of Home Affairs and the force. The next expected step is the submission of those reports and the first monthly review sitting of the core group.

  • Over 70% of police personnel favour immunity for use of force, “Status of Policing in India 2025” finds

    Why in the News

    The “Status of Policing in India 2025” report finds that over 70% of police personnel favour immunity for using force without accountability. The report also flags that National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) custodial injury data is unreliable, undermining independent verification of police conduct.

    Why does the immunity preference expose an accountability gap?

    1. Majority preference: A 70% plus preference for immunity among serving police personnel indicates the demand for accountability protection is not a fringe view but a majority institutional stance.
    2. Data unreliability: If NCRB custodial injury data is unreliable, external oversight bodies cannot independently verify whether force used against civilians was proportionate, regardless of internal police attitudes.
    3. Compounding effect: An accountability averse police culture combined with unreliable official data on custodial injury creates a structure where excessive force is both preferred by personnel and difficult to prove externally.

    Conclusion

    1. The central idea is that police demand for immunity and unreliable custodial injury data reinforce each other, since neither internal culture nor official data currently supports independent verification of force used against civilians. Addressing this requires fixing NCRB data reliability before any accountability reform on use of force can be meaningfully enforced.

    Back2Basics

    National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB): Statutory body under the Ministry of Home Affairs that compiles crime and criminal justice statistics across India, including custodial injury and death data.

    1. Analyze internal security threats and transborder crimes along Myanmar, Bangladesh and Pakistan borders including Line of Control (LoC). Also discuss the role played by various security forces in this regard

      With 15,106.7 km of land borders, the sanctity of India’s frontiers is the primary shield against unconventional “hybrid” warfare and transnational organized crime.

      Myanmar Border (1,643 km)

      Safe Havens for Insurgent Groups (IIGs)- Groups like ULFA-I and NSCN-K utilize “ungoverned spaces” in Myanmar to train and retreat.

      “Golden Triangle” Narcotics- Myanmar is a global hub for Methamphetamines. Eg- ED raids in Champhai (Mizoram) uncovering a network.

      Precursor Chemical Smuggling- Sending pseudoephedrine from India to Myanmar for drug production.

      Weapon Proliferation- Smuggling of sophisticated Western and Chinese arms from Myanmar’s black markets into Manipur.

      Bangladesh Border (4,096 km)

      Illegal Migration- Movement of undocumented individuals

      Illegal Cattle Smuggling (billion-dollar) – leads to border skirmishes.

      Bangladesh acts as a transit point for high-quality Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN).

      Human Trafficking- A major route for trafficking women and children for forced labor.

      Radicalization Spillover- groups like Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) attempting to establish sleeper cells in West Bengal and Assam.

      Pakistan Border & LoC- The “Hybrid Warfare” Zone (3,323 km)

      Drone-Based Narco-Terrorism in Punjab through Golden Crescent

      Infiltration of “Hybrid” Terrorists- Eg- The April 2025 Pahalgam attack which killed 26 tourists.

      Loitering Munition Attacks to target military infrastructure dueing ‘Op Sindoor’

      Role of OGW – generate pro-terror content, circulate videos and organise protests to delegitimise the state.

      Role Played by Various Security Forces

      India follows the “One Border, One Force” principle to ensure specialized guarding.

      Indian Army (Line of Control & Siachen)

      Mandate- High-intensity combat and maintaining the sanctity of the LoC and LAC.

      Counter-Infiltration through Anti-Infiltration Obstacle System (AIOS) (a multi-layered fence equipped with sensors)

      Siachen Defense- Guards the world’s highest battlefield at heights above 20,000 feet.

      Border Security Force (BSF)

      Guards the International Borders (IB) with Pakistan and Bangladesh.

      Anti-Smuggling Operations- Intercepts narcotics, cattle, and arms smuggling.

      Implements the Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System (CIBMS).

      Anti-Drone Warfare- Operates specialized jammers and “hard-kill” interceptors

      Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)

      Guards the Indo-China Border (LAC) from Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh.

      Acts as the first responder for avalanches and landslides in the Himalayan region.

      Assam Rifles (AR)

      Guards the Indo-Myanmar Border and conducts counter-insurgency operations in N-E.

      Responsible for implementing the 2024-25 scrapping of the Free Movement Regime (FMR) and biometric profiling of border-crossers.

      Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)

      Guards the Nepal and Bhutan Borders.

      Acts as the Lead Intelligence Agency (LIA) to identify “Third-Country Nationals”

      Other Steps taken

      Multi-Agency Centre (MAC) for intelligence sharing

      Vibrant Villages Programme

      The integration of modern technology with civil-military cooperation is essential to create “Multi-layered Security Shield.”

    2. What are the internal security challenges being faced by India? Give out the role of Central Intelligence and Investigative Agencies tasked to counter such threats.

      India’s internal security landscape has become increasingly complex, characterized by the convergence of traditional threats and high-tech “Grey Zone” challenges.

      Traditional Internal Security Challenges

      Cross-Border Terrorism- Eg- The 2025 Pahalgam attack by the TRF (a proxy of LeT).

      Left-Wing Extremism (LWE)- The “Red Corridor” remains a threat in core districts of Chhattisgarh and Odisha.

      Insurgency in the North-East- Ethnic militancy and secessionist movements like NSCN (IM).

      Communal and Sectarian Violence- Eg- Delhi Riots, 2020

      Illegal Migration & Infiltration along Bangladesh and Myanmar borders. Eg- Rohingya

      Organized Crime Syndicates-

      Extortion and smuggling networks. Eg- D-Company

      Drug Trafficking from Golden Crescent and Golden Traingle

      Hawala & Fake Currency (FICN)- Illegal financial channels used to destabilize the economy.

      Coastal Security Vulnerabilities

      Piracy

      Illegal deep sea fishing

      Emerging Internal Security Challenges

      Drone-Enabled Smuggling- Use of UAVs for drug and weapon drops.

      Cyber-Warfare-

      Rise in “Digital arrest” cases

      13.7% of global incidents target India (Cyfirma report)

      Deepfakes & AI-Disinformation- Eg- Manipulated videos during the 2025 state elections.

      Online Radicalization and “white-collar” terrorism. Eg- 2025 “Doctor Module” of Red Fort Blast.

      Cryptocurrency for Terror Funding- Use of “Privacy Coins” to bypass banking regulators.

      Role of agencies

      Intelligence Agencies

      Intelligence Bureau (IB)-

      India’s premier internal intelligence agency

      Manages the Multi-Agency Centre (MAC) to coordinate real-time terror alerts

      Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW)- External intelligence agency. Monitors cross-border launch pads, foreign political developments, and global terror financing.

      National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO)-

      The apex body for technical intelligence

      Manages spy satellites, UAVs, and “Cyber-Surveillance”.

      Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA)- Integrates intelligence from the Army, Navy, and Air Force

      Financial Intelligence Unit-India (FIU-IND)- receive and analyze reports on suspicious financial transactions to track money laundering and terror funding.

      Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI)- India’s premier anti-smuggling agency. Monitors trafficking of gold, firearms, and counterfeit currency (FICN). Eg- Operation Molten Metal to bust gold smuggling racket

      Investigative Agencies

      National Investigation Agency (NIA)-

      The federal counter-terrorism agency

      Has Suo Motu powers to investigate terror cases without state consent.

      Eg- “Operation Octopus” Against PFI

      Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)-

      Probes high-profile corruption, economic offenses, and serious inter-state crimes

      Acts as the nodal agency for Interpol in India.

      Enforcement Directorate (ED)- enforce the PMLA

      Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)- Apex coordinating body for the drug trade

      Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO)- investigate complex white-collar crimes and large-scale corporate frauds.

      Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB)- curbing organized wildlife crime and illegal trade in endangered species.

      Advanced intelligence, investigative precision, and grassroots socio-economic development need to work in tandem to safeguard the nation’s democratic fabric.