International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
Year : 2016, Volume : 6, Issue : 9
First page : ( 223) Last page : ( 230)
Online ISSN : 2249-2496.

Emerging Security Challenges to India: Ramification for Economic Development

Dr. Dodh Pankaj¹

¹Dr. Pankaj Dodh is Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science at National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, Pune, Maharashtra

Online published on 25 October, 2016.

Abstract

India is the world's largest democracy and one of its fastest growing economies. A 2010 joint study by the U.S. National Intelligence Council and the European Union declared it the world's third-most powerful nation. International Monetary Fund calls India “the bright spot in the global landscape”. India is the world's third largest economy and its 10th fastest growing economies with an annual growth of 7.8 per cent. India, today hosts the third largest numbers of dollar billionaires in the world. It is true that poverty declined to a record 22 per cent in 2011–12 as compared with 37.2% in 2004–05 and 29.8% in 2009–10. However, economic disparities and regional imbalance has emerged a serious challenge to both the security and prosperity of the country today. In fact, top ten per cent controls 73.5 per cent of national wealth by the year 2014 which was 65.8 per cent in the year 2000. Similarly, India's top one per cent is occupies 48 per cent. Similarly, the phenomenon of globalization has further widened the income related gap between urban and rural people. Alarmingly, out of the total 269.3 million poor in the country 216.5 reside in rural areas. More importantly, the scourge of terrorism and naxalism are the gravest threats that pose to the security and economic modernisation of India Today. In fact India experienced the fourth largest numbers of terrorist attacks after Iraq (24 per cent of terrorist incidents), Pakistan (19 per cent), Afghanistan (12 per cent) and India (5.8 per cent)”. The paper seeks to highlight the contour of economic development in India. The study would analyse the major national security threats to India and their ramification for economic development.

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Keywords

National Security, Naxalism, Terrorism, Insurgency, Economic Development.

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