![]() ![]() Its interactions, as one could see from its comprehensive report, have been largely with the community of retired officers. Having been a Task Force not enjoying the cover of the Official Secrets Act, it does not appear to have had the benefit of secret interactions with the serving officers of the intelligence agencies. The three-member Task Force was headed by Mr Rana Banerji, one of the finest analysts on Pakistan produced by the R&AW, who retired a couple of years ago. The second report has been prepared by a small Task Force set up by the Institute For Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA). Its focus has been on the inner core of the problems and difficulties faced by the agencies and their inadequacies as seen by the consumers of their products. This sub-group has had access to secret data relating to the functioning of the agencies and the views of the consumers of their products. The results of secret interactions with senior police officers from States facing internal security problems such as insurgency and terrorism have also gone into the preparation of the report of the intelligence sub-group of the Naresh Chandra Task Force. It is a classified report prepared after extensive secret interactions with serving and retired officers of the intelligence agencies and ministries and departments dealing with national security which are consumers of the products of the intelligence agencies. The first report is part of a larger study on the modernisation of the national security apparatus undertaken by a high-powered Task Force headed by Mr Naresh Chandra, former cabinet secretary and presently convenor of the National Security Advisory Board. The government of India has before it two comprehensive reports on the measures that need to be taken for improving our intelligence capabilities and for making our intelligence agencies more efficient and accountable. ![]()
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