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  • High level strategic policy group setup to assist National Security Council to review the security affairs of the country

    Published on October 9, 2018

    The government has set up the Strategic Policy Group (SPG) to assist the National Security Council, which advises the prime minister on matters of national security and strategic interests.

    Home Ministry sources said in New Delhi today that the SPG will be chaired by National Security Advisor (NSA) Doval and its members include the NITI Aayog vice chairman, the cabinet secretary, the chiefs of the three defence services, the RBI governor, the foreign secretary, the home secretary, the finance secretary and the defence secretary.

    The secretary of the Department of Defence Production and Supplies, the scientific adviser to the defence minister and the secretary (R), Cabinet Secretariat will also be members of the panel.

    The group nwill assist the National Security Council and undertake among other tasks, a long-term strategic review of country’s security affairs.

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