Haryana: Disasters and Internal Security

What the official syllabus says

General Studies III (Paper V) ends with "Related issues of Haryana." Read with the disaster and security lines of the paper, it covers:

• Related issues of Haryana.
• Disaster and disaster management.
• 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.

Haryana has no international border, but it surrounds Delhi on three sides and borders Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chandigarh. Most of its security issues are those of a fast-urbanising State next to the capital.

Topics in detail

Hazards in Haryana

• Floods: the Yamuna, Ghaggar, Markanda, Tangri and Sahibi; flash floods from the Shivalik streams in the north; urban flooding in Gurugram
• Drought and low rainfall in the south and south-west
• Heat waves, cold waves, frost and dense fog (road accidents on highways)
• Earthquakes: the NCR districts and others lie in high seismic zones; risk to high-rise buildings
• Hailstorms and unseasonal rain damaging rabi crops; locust attacks
• Industrial and chemical hazards: refinery, fertiliser and chemical units; factory and building fires
• Stubble fires and their health effects

Disaster management in the State

• Haryana State Disaster Management Authority, chaired by the Chief Minister; District Disaster Management Authorities under the Deputy Commissioners
• Revenue and Disaster Management Department; State Disaster Response Force; fire and emergency services
• State disaster management plan; flood control works by the Irrigation Department
• Crop damage assessment and compensation (e-Kshatipurti portal); relief norms
• Building codes and fire safety in Gurugram and Faridabad

Internal security issues

• Organised crime: inter-State gangs, extortion, contract killing and illegal arms; the Haryana Police Special Task Force
• Drug abuse and trafficking, especially in districts bordering Punjab and Rajasthan; Haryana State Narcotics Control Bureau
• Cyber crime: online financial fraud networks in parts of the State, such as in Nuh district, and police action against them; cyber police stations
• Human trafficking and illegal emigration through fraudulent travel agents
• Public order: managing large agitations, such as the 2016 reservation agitation and the 2017 violence in Panchkula, and the lessons drawn from them
• Communal and caste tensions; role of social media and rumours
• Crimes against women and the role of women police stations and helplines
• Policing in the NCR: coordination with Delhi Police and neighbouring States

Security forces and establishments in Haryana

• Haryana Police: districts and commissionerates; Haryana Armed Police; India Reserve Battalions
• Haryana Police Academy, Madhuban (Karnal); emergency response number 112
• Headquarters of the Army's Western Command at Chandimandir (Panchkula)
• Air Force stations at Ambala and Sirsa
• National Security Guard training centre at Manesar
• Sainik Schools, such as those at Kunjpura (Karnal) and Rewari
• Haryana's large contribution of soldiers to the armed forces; welfare of ex-servicemen

Overlaps

• Disaster Management, Internal Security and Border Security and Security Forces: the national side of the same topics.
• General Studies II: police administration and governance in Haryana.