Home minister P Chidambaram completes a year in office on Dec 1. Has he initiated enough measures to bolster India's security?

Last year, after Shivraj Patil resigned as home minister due to the intelligence failures that led to the 26/11 attacks, P Chidambaram reluctantly took up the post on December 1.

During his year-long tenure as home minister, Chidambaram has made several changes to the way security is handled in our country.

After reorganising and revamping intelligence agencies (the Multi-Agency Centre and the subsidiary Multi-Agency Centre), Chidambaram made changes to the CISF Act, allowing for paramilitary forces to guard private installations.

Considering how vulnerable water routes are, he has intensified coastal patrols, issued ID cards to fishermen and employed high-tech security measures, such as vessel-tracking and monitoring systems.

He has also installed 235-member-strong NSG hubs in four major cities - Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Hyderabad - allowing for a relatively timely NSG response wherever an attack may take place in India.

Also focusing on increasing accountability and transparency, Chidambaram has suggested amending the allegedly abused Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, which allows security forces to take lethal action against "any person who is acting in contravention of any law" in designated areas.

Despite all these changes, the home minister says India is still vulnerable to another terrorist attack.

Home minister P Chidambaram completes a year in office on December 1. Has he initiated enough measures to bolster India's security? Or is it too early to judge?