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Centre reviews internal security of Northeast states |
In a daylong closed-door meeting, Joint Secretary
(North East) of Union Home Ministry, Naveen Verma, recently reviewed the internal
security and ways to tackle militancy in the north Eastern states with the Director
General of Police and State Home Secretaries of the region. The review was done
against the backdrop of the killing of 13 people in Assam ’s Sonitpur District
by National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants. The meeting stressed
the need for modernization of State police forces, revamping the intelligence
gathering mechanism, enhanced focus on border management to check cross-border
activities and proper rehabilitation of the surrendered militants to encourage
others to follow suit. They also discussed the need for setting up of more police
stations, particularly in the remote areas, greater emphasis on training and sanctioning
of additional posts. Naveen Verma said that the surrendered militants are being
given training and are paid stipend for the training period. They are also given
Rs.1.5 lakhs as fixed deposit per salary to be given after 3 years. The meeting
also agreed to further strengthen sharing of regional level intelligence to check
movement of militants in different States and also decided to hold such review
meetings every quarter in different State capitals of the north east. Meanwhile,
reacting to the Sonitpur District incident, Khagen Sharma, Additional DGP (Special
Branch) of Assam , said that the NDFB carried out the attacks on soft targets
in a desperate bid to draw attention to its 18th raising day. “What NDFB has done
is not indicative of its strength, but its frustration as their number are very
few. They killed people in remote areas as it is a soft target. They wanted to
do in some other places they could not do that's' why they shift their focus to
the interior areas,” Sharma said. |
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