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Which of the following correctly describes the acronym 'PRAHAAR' — India's National Counter-Terrorism Policy released by MHA in February 2026?

Correct answer: (A) Prevention, Response, Aggregation of capacities, Human-rights-based processes, Attenuation of radicalisation, Aligning international cooperation, Recovery.

PRAHAAR describes India’s counter-terrorism strategy as Prevention, Responses, Aggregating capacities, Human rights and rule-of-law based processes, Attenuating conditions enabling terrorism, Aligning international efforts, and Recovery and resilience.

  1. (A)

    Prevention, Response, Aggregation of capacities, Human-rights-based processes, Attenuation of radicalisation, Aligning international cooperation, Recovery

  2. (B)

    Proactive Response Against Hostile Activities And Radicalisation

  3. (C)

    Prevention, Reconnaissance, Assessment, Handling, Apprehension, Arrest, Rehabilitation

  4. (D)

    Proactive, Realistic, Agile, Holistic, Anticipatory, Accountable, Resilient

Explanation

Option A is correct because the MHA’s National Counterterrorism Policy and Strategy sets out PRAHAAR as a seven-part framework: prevention of terror attacks; swift and proportionate responses; aggregation of internal capacities for a whole-of-government approach; human-rights and rule-of-law based processes; attenuation of conditions enabling terrorism, including radicalisation; alignment of international efforts; and recovery and resilience through a whole-of-society approach. The policy also describes India’s prevention approach as proactive and intelligence-guided, with the Multi Agency Centre and Joint Task Force on Intelligence in the Intelligence Bureau serving as the nodal platform for real-time sharing of counter-terrorism inputs. That is why the answer must be the structured seven-pillar expansion, not a slogan-like invented acronym.

Why the other options are wrong

  • (B) It compresses PRAHAAR into a generic phrase about hostile activities and radicalisation, but the MHA policy lists seven separate strategy elements rather than this one-line expansion.
  • (C) It substitutes operational terms such as reconnaissance, apprehension and arrest, none of which appear as the seven PRAHAAR pillars in the MHA policy.
  • (D) It is only a set of adjectives and misses the policy’s concrete pillars such as prevention, responses, aggregating capacities, rights-based processes and recovery.

Concept

This tests counter-terrorism policy architecture under internal security and governance. RAS repeatedly asks such items because acronyms can look plausible unless the candidate knows the official policy structure.

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