INTERNAL SECURITY

“Prepare Internal Security for UPSC GS III with simplified, structured notes. Covers terrorism, cyber security, organized crime, and India’s internal security challenges for high-quality Mains answers.”

Internal Security is a vital component of GS Paper III in the UPSC Mains exam. This section deals with the full spectrum of challenges India faces within its borders — from insurgency, terrorism, and extremism to cyber-threats, money laundering, organized crime, border management, and internal law-and-order dynamics. A deep understanding of these topics — combined with awareness of evolving real-world developments — is essential for writing analytical, well-rounded answers. On this page, you’ll find structured coverage of all major sub-themes, relevant laws and institutional frameworks, and discussion of emerging security issues to help you build clarity and exam readiness.

Syllabus and Notes

• Linkages between development and spread of extremism.

• Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security.

• Challenges to internal security through communication networks,

• Role of media and social networking sites in internal security challenges,

• Basics of cyber security; money laundering and its prevention.

• Security challenges and their management in border areas – linkages of organized crime with terrorism.

• Various Security forces and agencies and their mandate.