- The University should adopt an empirical research model, and develop a solutions-oriented approach to map and understand the nations’ most pressing security challenges: Ajit Doval
NE NEWS SERVICE
GANDHINAGAR, JUNE 10
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval along with Deputy National Security Advisors Rajinder Khanna and Ambassador Vikram Misri conducted the National Security Advisory Board meeting at Rashtriya Raksha University in Gandhinagar on Friday.
The National Security Advisory Board consisting of Prof Dr Bimal N Patel (Also, Vice-Chancellor of RRU), Sridhar Vembu, Anshuman Tripathi, Prof V Kamakoti, Kulbir Krishnan and Tilak Devasher were in attendance in physical mode. Other members Devendra Sharma, Dr KRadhakrishnan and Lt Gen SLNarasimhan were present virtually.
The National Security Advisor along with his team assessed the academic and research setup at the University. He attended detailed briefings of the Information Technology Labs on Geo-Intelligence Systems, OSINT, AI etc. He was also briefed about the various programmes run by the University in the domain of police administration, defence and strategic studies, maritime and coastal security, IT and AI, criminology and behavioural sciences, and international relations and strategic languages.
He shared extensive feedback while congratulating the University for its success and achievements in a short duration of time since October 2020. He encouraged that, “the University should adopt an empirical research model, and develop a solutions-oriented approach to map and understand the nations’ most pressing security challenges.”
He emphasized on, “developing a generation of security-oriented citizens who are empowered to take up new challenges in the domain of national security while being fully integrated in the economy.”
Thereafter, the NSA and his team undertook the National Security Advisory Board meeting behind closed doors. The NSAB meeting is a key deliberative body of the National Security Council Secretariat including experts from various domains deliberating on the contemporary and futuristic issues of national security. The NSAB meets in New Delhi regularly but, owing to the special place of Rashtriya Raksha University in the space of national security, the NSAB meeting found a congenial place in RRU to host such important deliberations.
The visiting delegation left the University after being fully briefed about the key role Rashtriya Raksha University is and will play in the field of national security.
