The year 2008 exhibited that terrorism and internal insurgencies remain the biggest threat to India’s national security, businesses and way of life. Such continual increse and spread of terrorist attacks across India indicates ineffectivness of measures and investments made towards national security in recent years. All the prepardness seems nowhere close to take on the non-state actors conspiring against India., India is already late in putting in place a robust response to terrorism, in creating a synamic, multi-layered response system and pre-emptive intelligence gathering and sharing mechanism. The existing system is woefully inadequate, and the very framework of those responces do not take into account the role of many players, especially the private sector and civil society in fighting terror., The FICCI is confident that this paper would help the government enhance and augment the nation’s internal security. The report projects a broard vision and recommendations on counter-terrorism measures for the Central Government’s consideration. It calls for the government to undertake viable and implimentable solutions to the multiple and complex security challenges that India confronts today. It further calls for greater involvement of industry in national security strategies and improved cooperation between policy-makers, government and industry as part of a robust public-private partnership.