Tell me which part of my reply seemed "Bollywood indoctrination" to you? You were cribbing about civilian control over decision matrix in our security architectecture and fantasizing about DIA as some miraculous solution. I pointed out the fallacies in your assessment. Infact, it was you, who made some Bollywood type (il)logical connection between us "reading the pattern" and field agents weeding out pests in a nation of 1.5 billion people with limited connectivity a decade ago.
Let me point out some things to you:-
1. Starting with Kandhar scenario. Do you mean protection as in security detail acting as bodyguard or protection by making an information network, so that any potential harm can be pre-empted? If its first, then I would suggest SPG since they are trained to protect. If it's second, then the other will be RAW. I know you will have issues with this choice but I will explain it further points.
2. You cannot escape your neighborhood. This is the reality we live in. Surrounded by nations with high number of coup, civil war, military interference and a behemoth whose military is mandated to protect a politburo, not a nation. The CCP has far more fundamental control over PLA then GOI does over IA. In such neighborhood, you've got a big nation prone to internal violence, an actual instance of a battalion mutiny in 1984, seperatists and limited state capacity at the time of independence. Crib all you want but such a stark contrast doesn't appear out of blue. Not all fear of civil administration back then was unfounded.
The ideal situation you've in mind, happens once the state capacity and capability stabilises with respect to its institutions, economy, polity and sovereignty. When would you say India achieved it? 1971? 1991? 1998?2004? 2014? 2025?
3. What RAW needs is not less oversight, but autonomy. There's a difference. Autonomy from Beauracracy by having its own distinct recruitment, training and promotion pipeline. But in a way which can bypass parliamentary intervention and policies like reservation. Seperation of cadre and operations internally for info gathering, analysis, reporting, monitoring etc. Better technological aid to sift through information. A central processing unit which gather info from all agencies and dispatch analysis to concerned agency mandated to act on it. None of them will be news headline or parliamentary debate. Because that information about our capabilities is as much strategic asset as EW systems deployed by forces. Still, Even within current system, RAW has legal ways to absorb personnel permanently and lot of grey zones to do what's needed . (Note that field agents aren't included as they are usually out of the gambit of public discourse ).
4. Coming to the point of your frustrations, the IAS/IPS mess. Yes, it's real. No, the solution is not DIA or lessening of civil oversight in intelligence & military domain.
The Deputation game. Every domain/ministry/institution is suffering from this rot. Commerce, diplomacy, R&D anything. There is a very very powerful lobby sitting across India which advantages from current dynamics. That's your Cabinet secretaries, JS, Directors, Collectors, DM, any position which has control over populace. Individually, they seem vulnerable to politicians and people but as a collective they have the dominance.
Right now the reality is that government has limited options to legally recruit employees.
Even if one new pipeline is added, it will be it's own headache to come up with a way that is not UPSC copy. If you have suggestions, pray tell.
But that will still be under civilian oversight, require political go ahead and answerable to either of PMO, MoD, CCS, NSCS etc. A new Secretary will be added to hierarchy which will be reserved for that distinct pipeline. Sort of our new military department under MoD. The General isn't UPSC recruit but still works under civilian frame. Without solving core issues (many of them nothing to do with deputation), a new hiring policy won't bring any changes.
But that can be applied to most of the agencies and department. Have you not been viewing various other threads and us "reading" the inefficiencies? Just not as wrongly directed as you are doing.
Be realistic. Come up with solutions within the constraints. Don't expect overnight sucess. It might seem big, but 10 years ain't enough for state to cut off every institutional rot within. (State≠GOI) 10 years ago, the MM did not have any power and UPA was a pack of wolves let free upon our state where even the Terrorists enjoyed patronage. Red terror met with green one.
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