QUESTION 10
GS3
10 marks
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by our adversaries across the borders to ferry arms/ammunitions, drugs, etc, is a serious threat to the internal security. Comment on the measures being taken to tackle this threat.
WRITE IN
7 min
150 words
What the examiner wants
Comment on how hostile drones ferrying arms and drugs across borders threaten security, and on the measures to counter them.
CommentGive your own view on the statement and back it with facts and examples.
Demand-wise check
- 1Threat: Pakistan-based drones dropping weapons, drugs and cash in Punjab and Jammu; Jammu air base drone attack (June 2021); low cost and hard to detect≈35 words
- 2Measures: anti-drone systems (DRDO's D4), BSF jammers and spoofers, forensic analysis of recovered drones, Drone Rules 2021 and registration (Digital Sky), border fencing upgrades, community vigilance, NIA cases≈35 words
- 3Gaps: detection of small drones, cost, coordination with state police≈35 words
Open in about 20 words and close in about 20.
Answer plan
Nature of threat with examplesTechnological measuresLegal and procedural measuresGapsConclusion
Where marks usually go
- Writing about drones in general (agriculture, delivery) without the security angle
- No specific counter-drone system or example
Draw this
- Layered defence diagram: detect → identify → jam/spoof → neutralise → forensics
Value addition
- ExampleTwo drones dropped explosives on the Jammu Air Force Station in June 2021, India's first drone attack on a military base.Ministry of Defence / NIA
- DataBSF recovered over 250 Pakistani drones along the Punjab border in 2024.Border Security Force
Next: plan for one minute, write it in 7 minutes, then get it checked.