Internal Security

Internal Security forms one of the pillars of GS 3. It includes the following topics

• Linkages between the Development and Spread of Extremism
  • Linkages between the Development and Spread of Extremism
  • Naxalism

North East Insurgency

• North East Insurgency
• Assam Issue
• Nagaland Issue
• Manipur Issue

• Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security
• Issue of Drug Trafficking
• Role of media and social networking sites in internal security challenges
  • Role of Media in Internal Security Challenges
  • Role of Social Networking Sites in Internal Security Challenges
• Basics of cybersecurity
• Money-laundering and its prevention
• Linkages of Organised Crime with Terrorism
• Security challenges and their management in border areas
  • Land Border Management
  • Coastal Border Management
• Various Security Forces and Agencies and their mandate