Garhwal Post Bureau
Lucknow, 1 Sep: Headquarters, Central Command, hosted the Security Seminar 2025 on the theme “Navigating Emerging Challenges to India’s Security Environment”, bringing together distinguished guests, eminent scholars, seasoned veterans, and diplomats. The seminar, held on 30 August, aimed to critically examine India’s evolving security matrix, with focused sessions on strategic shifts in Indian context, hybrid threats, multi-front pressures and non-traditional conflict domains.
The seminar commenced with the Opening Address by Lieutenant General Anindya Sengupta, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Central Command, who highlighted the need to understand historical, cultural and strategic dimensions in responding to emerging regional geopolitical complexities.
Governor of Uttarakhand, Lt General Gurmit Singh (Retd), delivered the Keynote Address, outlining five pillars essential to India’s national security posture: military preparedness, diplomatic agility, economic resilience, narrative shaping and revival of civilisational linkages in the Asian context.
The seminar featured focused discussions and panel deliberations by prominent voices including Ambassador Sujan R Chinoy, Prof (Dr) Shashi Bala, Dr Pranshu Samdarshi, Claude Arpi on civilisational continuity and India’s cultural bonds in Northern region. Other sessions led by Lt General Raj Shukla (Retd), Major General Abhinaya Rai, Ambassodar Vijay Gokhale, Lt General SL Narasimhan (Retd) explored hybrid threats and coordinated adversarial tactics while Lieutenant General DS Hooda (Retd), Major General Harsha Kakar (Retd), Jayadeva Ranade and Alok Joshi discussed sub-conventional operations and grey-zone dynamics.
In his keynote, Lieutenant General Navin Sachdeva, COS, Central Command, commended and thanked the speakers and participants for their insights, and emphasised the need for India’s security ecosystem to remain agile, informed and prepared. He stressed that strategic foresight, cultural strength and operational readiness are crucial to address the multi-domain challenges of today and tomorrow.
The seminar concluded with a consensus that India’s security strategy must be rooted in readiness, resilience and regional engagement—anchored by the collective will of policymakers, military leaders, scholars and citizens to safeguard national sovereignty and strategic interests.
