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Ministry of Home Affairs

The Ministry of Home Affairs is the Government of India's department for internal security and domestic order. It oversees the central armed police forces, border management, centre–state relations, disaster management and internal-security policy. It is the institution most responsible for security inside India's borders, as distinct from external defence.

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Ministry of Home Affairs
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Headquarters
North Block, New Delhi
Forces overseen
Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs)
Budget (2026-27)
₹2.55 lakh crore
Naxal-affected districts
38 (2024), from 126 (2018)
Coverage since 194720 recorded events ·95% from official & primary sources
1945–1949: 1 event19501960197019801990200020102015–2019: 5 events2020–2024: 6 events20202025–2026: 8 events

Role

The Home Ministry runs India’s internal-security architecture. It controls the Central Armed Police Forces — the BSF, CRPF, CISF, ITBP and SSB — manages the country’s land borders, and coordinates centre–state security and disaster response. Its remit is domestic order and internal threats, complementing the external mandate of the Indian Army and the defence establishment.

Desk maintained by IndiaStand editorial cycles. Officeholders are transient; this dossier tracks the institution.

Timeline since 1947

  1. reference

    Ministry of Home Affairs constituted

    Inherited responsibility for internal order and the integration of princely states.

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    Reorganisation of Jammu & Kashmir

    Article 370 changes and the reorganisation of the state into two union territories were administered through the ministry.

  3. official

    National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal launched as a citizen filing channel

    The ministry launched cybercrime.gov.in so that cybercrime complaints could be filed without visiting a police station, with complaints routed online to the law-enforcement agency of the relevant state or union territory.

    source 1

  4. official

    NIA (Amendment) Act 2019 extends the agency's jurisdiction beyond India

    The amendment gave the National Investigation Agency extra-territorial jurisdiction over terrorism offences committed outside India where Indian citizens or property are victims, and added explosive substances, human trafficking, manufacture or sale of prohibited arms and cyber terrorism to its schedule.

    source 1

  5. official

    UAPA (Amendment) Act 2019 lets the Centre designate individuals as terrorists

    The amendment empowered the central government to proscribe individuals, not only organisations, as terrorists — four were designated immediately after — and empowered the NIA to seize or forfeit property representing proceeds of terrorism in cases it investigates.

    source 1

  6. official

    Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 added to the ministry's statute book

    The ministry piloted legislation granting Indian citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian persons from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh on grounds of religious persecution; MHA records deliberations with North-Eastern stakeholders whose objections it says were addressed in the final Act.

    source 1

  7. official

    CAPF Institute of Medical Sciences established at ₹2,091 crore

    CAPFIMS was set up at a cost of ₹2,091 crore as a dedicated medical institute for the central armed police forces, with a 970-bed referral and research hospital, a 500-bed general hospital, a 300-bed super-speciality hospital and 170 ICU beds.

    source 1

  8. official

    LWE deaths fall below 100 for the first time in four decades

    MHA's review records 287 Naxalites neutralised and 992 arrested during 2024, 14 of them Politburo members, with the death toll in LWE-affected areas below 100 for the first time in forty years; security spending in LWE-affected states nearly tripled to ₹3,006 crore.

    source 1

  9. official

    Cabinet extends the Safety of Women umbrella scheme at ₹1,179.72 crore

    The Union Cabinet approved MHA's proposal to continue the umbrella scheme on Safety of Women for 2021-22 to 2025-26 at ₹1,179.72 crore, of which ₹885.49 crore comes from the ministry's own budget and ₹294.23 crore from the Nirbhaya Fund.

    source 1

  10. official

    Left-Wing Extremism footprint at a multi-decade low

    MHA figures put LWE-affected districts at 38, down from 126 in 2018, and the 'most affected' at 6; violence incidents fell from 1,936 (2010) to 374 (2024).

    source 1

  11. official

    Three new criminal codes replace the IPC, CrPC and Evidence Act

    The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam came into force on 1 July 2024, replacing the colonial-era Indian Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure and Indian Evidence Act that the ministry had administered since independence.

    source 1source 2

  12. official

    MHA stands up a cyber-fraud enforcement layer under I4C

    The ministry dedicated the Cyber Fraud Mitigation Centre — a joint law-enforcement and private-sector body — and launched the Samanvay data-sharing platform, a Suspect Registry built on National Cybercrime Reporting Portal identifiers with banks and financial intermediaries, and a programme to raise 5,000 Cyber Commandos across states and central police organisations.

    source 1

  13. official

    Vibrant Villages Programme-2 approved with a ₹6,839 crore outlay

    The Union Cabinet approved a second phase of the border-village development programme with a total outlay of ₹6,839 crore, extending the ministry's border-management remit from policing into settlement and infrastructure.

    source 1

  14. official

    Most-affected LWE districts down to 3 as the March 2026 deadline nears

    MHA's 2025 review puts the most-affected LWE districts at 3 and total affected districts at 11, down from 18, with 312 cadres neutralised during the year; 258 Naxalites surrendered in Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra in a single tranche.

    source 1

  15. official

    Immigration and Foreigners Bill 2025 passed by the Lok Sabha

    The ministry piloted a consolidated immigration law through the Lok Sabha, framed around a complete and up-to-date record of every foreign national entering India — who enters, when, for how long and for what purpose.

    source 1

  16. official

    Caste enumeration to be included in the next Census

    The Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs decided to include caste enumeration in the forthcoming census, reversing the practice of counting only Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes; the Registrar General of India under MHA administers the count.

    source 1

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    Operation Black Forest

    The largest anti-Naxal offensive to date, in the Karregutta Hills on the Chhattisgarh–Telangana border; the CPI (Maoist) general secretary was among those killed weeks later.

    source 1

  18. official

    Census 2027 notified in two phases with a 1 March 2027 reference date

    The ministry notified Population Census 2027 in two phases with a reference date of 00:00 hours on 1 March 2027; for Ladakh and the non-synchronous snow-bound areas of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand the reference date is 00:00 hours on 1 October 2026.

    source 1

  19. official

    'Naxal-Mukt Bharat' deadline

    The Ministry set 31 March 2026 as its target to eliminate Left-Wing Extremism nationwide, the centrepiece of an internal-security consolidation drive.

    source 1

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    Home Minister declares the three internal-security threats 'by and large' resolved

    Speaking in Bastar, the Home Minister said India was 'by and large' free of Left-Wing Extremism, Jammu & Kashmir terrorism and Northeast insurgency; critics noted residual Maoist activity in a few districts.

    source 1

Frequently asked

What is Ministry of Home Affairs?
The Ministry of Home Affairs is the Government of India's department for internal security and domestic order. It oversees the central armed police forces, border management, centre–state relations, disaster management and internal-security policy. It is the institution most responsible for security inside India's borders, as distinct from external defence.
When was Ministry of Home Affairs established?
Ministry of Home Affairs was established 1947.
What does Ministry of Home Affairs do?
Its remit covers Internal security and counter-insurgency policy, Central Armed Police Forces (BSF, CRPF, CISF, ITBP, SSB), Border management, Centre–state relations and union territories, Disaster management.
What is the latest on Ministry of Home Affairs?
As of 2026-07-05: Home Minister declares the three internal-security threats 'by and large' resolved. Speaking in Bastar, the Home Minister said India was 'by and large' free of Left-Wing Extremism, Jammu & Kashmir terrorism and Northeast insurgency; critics noted residual Maoist activity in a few districts.

Official sources

The government's own pages for this institution — go straight to the primary.

  • Official website

    www.mha.gov.in/

  • Ministry of Home Affairs site

    Canonical MHA home page; hub for divisions, acts and notifications.

    www.mha.gov.in/en

  • MHA Annual Reports reports

    Archive of MHA annual reports covering internal security, border management, crime and disaster management.

    www.mha.gov.in/en/documents/annual-reports

  • National Crime Records Bureau data

    MHA's statistics body; publishes Crime in India, ADSI and prison statistics, runs CCTNS.

    www.ncrb.gov.in/

  • National Disaster Management Authority department

    Apex disaster-management body chaired by the Prime Minister, under MHA's Disaster Management Division.

    ndma.gov.in/

  • Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (India Code) legislation

    Bare text of the criminal code administered by MHA, which replaced the IPC.

    www.indiacode.nic.in/handle/123456789/20062

  • MHA Press Releases press

    Ministry's own press-release archive, indexed by year (page is a thin index that links year-wise listings).

    www.mha.gov.in/en/commoncontent/mha-press-releases

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