Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 11: Vice President Dr Hamid Ansari would tomorrow evening release the book of Governor NN Vohra ‘Safeguarding India’ at India International Centre, New Delhi.
Vohra today left for New Delhi from here after presiding over the State Administrative Council (SAC) meeting.
The book dwelt on crucial link between national governance and internal security apart from effective maintenance of security calls for efficient and honest governance.
“The good governance is inconceivable if there is any compromise whatsoever in the enforcement of rule of law. Continuing maladministration and corruption have created the impression that our polity, bureaucracy and the rich and influential elements are beyond the pale of law,’’ the book mentioned.
It pointed out that national security can no longer be safeguarded by seeking refuge in the existing Constitutional arrangements and division of responsibilities between the Centre and the States nor can these grave and complex problems be tackled by the Home Ministry alone, whose capability and resourcefulness has been progressively diluted over the years.
Vohra, the author of the book and presently Governor of J&K, has been educated at Punjab and Oxford Universities and served as IAS officer between 1959 and 1994. He had served as Principal Secretary to the then Prime Minister from 1997 to 1998 and was a member of National Security Advisor Board from 1998 to 2001. He had headed the National Task Force on internal security.
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