Date: 2025-07-25Category: Not ApplicableState: Union GovernmentCountry: India
Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah inaugurates the two-day 8th National Security Strategies (NSS) Conference-2025 in New Delhi
The 8th National Security Strategies (NSS) Conference 2025, inaugurated by Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah, was held in New Delhi on July 25, 2025. The two-day conference, conducted in a hybrid format, saw the participation of approximately 800 officers from across the country, including senior officials such as the Union Home Secretary, Deputy NSA, and Heads of CAPFs and CPOs in Delhi, along with DGsP of States and UTs, young police officers, and domain experts participating virtually.
The first day's discussions centered on external actors detrimental to national interests and their domestic connections, including narcotics trade involvement, challenges posed by encrypted communication apps and emerging technologies, technology utilization for crowd management, and the security of uninhabited islands. Terror financing issues were also addressed. The Union Home Minister directed enhanced interagency coordination to apprehend fugitives involved in terrorist and smuggling activities, disrupt domestic terror-criminal networks, and establish a multi-stakeholder forum to counter encrypted communication by terror networks. Agencies were instructed to analyze financial irregularities to uncover terror modules, and the MHA was tasked with ensuring the use of indigenous technology by police organizations. The second day of the conference is slated to cover civil aviation and port security, counter-terrorism, Left Wing Extremism, and countermeasures against narcotics trafficking.
The NSS Conference, an annual event since 2016 following the directive of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, aims to address major national security challenges by leveraging the experience of grassroots-level officers and domain experts. Hybrid mode participation has been in place since 2021 to ensure wider engagement.
Key Entities Referenced
Ministry of Home Affairs: The Indian government ministry responsible for internal security and law and order.
Amit Shah: Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation of India.
National Security Strategies NSS Conference2025: Annual conference focused on national security strategies.
New Delhi: The location of the 8th National Security Strategies NSS Conference2025.
Union Home Secretary: A senior officer who attended the National Security Strategies Conference 2025 in Delhi.
Intelligence Bureau: An Indian intelligence agency whose personnel were commemorated at the conference.
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi: The Prime Minister of India, who directed the annual National Security Strategies Conference.
Left Wing Extremism: A topic of focus during the second day of the National Security Strategies NSS Conference2025.
Ministry of Home Affairs
Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation
Shri Amit Shah inaugurates the two-day 8th National
Security Strategies (NSS) Conference-2025 in New
Delhi
Posted On: 25 JUL 2025 11:22PM by PIB Delhi
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Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah inaugurated the two-day 8 National
Security Strategies (NSS) Conference-2025 in New Delhi today.
The Conference was held in hybrid format, combining physical and virtual modes. Around 800 officers
participated from across the country who deliberated on various subjects related to national security. Among
senior officers, the Union Home Secretary, Deputy NSA and Heads of CAPFs and CPOs attended the
Conference in Delhi. The DGsP of States and UTs as also young police officers at the cutting edge level and
domain experts from specialized fields joined the Conference from the respective state capitals through the
virtual mode.
Prior to the inauguration, Union Home Minister laid a wreath at the Martyrs column and paid homage to the
brave personnel of Intelligence Bureau who had sacrificed their lives in the line of duty towards national
security and integrity.
The first day of the Conference focused on the role of external actors who are inimical to the interests of thenation and their domestic linkages including involvement in Narcotics trade; challenges posed by illegal use
of encrypted communication apps and other latest technologies, use of technology for crowd management and
security of uninhabited islands. The issues related to financing of terror were also deliberated.
Union Home Minister directed to undertake dedicated measures to bring back fugitives involved in terrorist
and smuggling activities with enhanced inter-agency coordination between Central and State law enforcement
agencies, besides recalibrating the approach towards disrupting domestic nodes of the terror-criminal nexus.
MHA was asked to set up a forum with stakeholders across the spectrum to come up with solutions to counter
the use of encrypted communication by terror networks. Reviewing terror financing mechanisms, agencies
were directed to unearth terror modules by analysing inputs pertaining to financial irregularities. MHA was
also asked to ensure that only indigenous technology was used by Police organisations.
The second day of the Conference would focus on civil aviation and port security, counter terrorism, Left
Wing Extremism and countermeasures for Narcotics trafficking.
During the DGsP/IGsP Conference-2016, the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi had directed to hold the
National Security Strategies Conference every year, with the objective of finding solutions to major National
Security challenges using the extensive experience of cutting-edge level officers working at the grass root
level in collaboration with domain experts. In compliance of the directions of the Prime Minister, the
Conference has been held in hybrid mode for wider participation since 2021.*****
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