New Delhi: India will now eventually have the National Maritime Security Coordinator (NMSC) to ensure effective coordination and cohesive policy making among different authorities and different countries deal with maritime affairs from the coastline to the sea.
The Cabinet Committee on Security has approved the NMSC post, which will also act as an interface between military and civil institutions to strengthen state maritime security, energy and needs ‘blue economy’, said the source on Saturday.
Deputy Admiral Retired or present the Navy (equivalent to the LT-General in the Army) is likely to be appointed to the post.
NMSC will work at the National Security Council Secretariat and report to the National Security Advisor Ajit Doval.
Toi has been reported that the government worked to create an Federal Body Apex, the National Maritime Commission (NMC), and NMSC Post.
While NMC “still works in the process”, NMSC posts have now become true.
“This is a long maturing reform.
The NMSC Task Charter will be told,” said a source.
“The basic charter will ensure coordination among many authorities that mostly work in silos, and often in cross-goals.
They range from the Ministry and the Central Department (external affairs, defense, home, delivery, fisheries etc.) and state governments to the Navy , Coastal Guard, Customs, Intelligence Agency and Port Authority.
He will also see several aspects of technology, “he added.
The urgent need for effective federal maritime mechanisms has been repeatedly emphasized for years.
The 2001 group reported the reform of the national security system after the Cargil conflict, for example, underlined the need for the need for the “peak body for the management of maritime affairs for the relevant institutionalized between the navy, coast guards and the central government ministry and state;”.
After the deadly 26/11 mumbai terror attack in 2008, which exposed the lack of “critical connectivity” between intelligence agencies and security forces, the creation of the Maritime Security Advisory Board (MSAB) with a maritime security advisor as well as sought on the CCS agenda.
But it cannot take off due to grass war and apathy politics – general bureaucratic.
India has a coastline of 7,516-km long including the island region and an exclusive economic zone of two million square kilometers.
“Especially with 90% of our trade with volume and 70% with transit values by sea, India also wants to secure the activities of ‘Blue Economy’ in the coming years,” an official said.
Proposed after 26/11, India finally got a maritime coordinator
