Estimated cost of Rs 300 crore, the university would come up on a 200 acre land at Binola in Gurgaon
PTI | May 13, 2010
Drawing lessons from the 1999 Kargil conflict, the government today decided to set up the first defence university in the country to enable holistic study of defence and strategic security challenges.
A meeting of the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, accorded "in principle" approval to set up the Indian National Defence University (INDU) near Delhi, information and broadcasting minister Ambika Soni told reporters here.
To be established at an estimated cost of Rs 300 crore, the university would come up on a 200 acre land at Binola in Gurgaon, Haryana. A sum of Rs 100 crore has been earmarked for acquisition of the land.
The existing defence educational institutions like the National Defence College in New Delhi, College of Defence Management at Secunderabad, National Staff College at Wellington and National Defence Academy in Pune, would be affiliated to INDU. At present, these institutions are attached to various universities.
"INDU will undertake long-term defence and strategic studies and create synergy between the academic community and government functionaries," Soni said.
The proposed university, which would be fully autonomous and constituted under an Act of Parliament, would promote policy-oriented research on all aspects of national security as part of the strategic national policy-making, she said.
"It will encourage awareness of national security issues by reaching out to scholars and an audience beyond the official machinery," Soni said.
INDU would educate national security leaders on all aspects of national strategies in the fields of security, military, information and technology, through teaching and research, she added.
After the Kargil conflict, the government had set up a Review Committee, headed by eminent strategic expert K Subrahmanyam, which had recommended establishment of such a university to exclusively deal with defence and strategic matters.
The Committee had also recommended finding of ways and means to integrate the academic community, armed forces, paramilitary forces, intelligence agencies and the bureaucracy in strategic security policy making and related issues.
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