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Centre working out a strategy to deal with northeast terror groups | Union Home Secretary G K Pillai has revealed that
the Centre is working out a strategy for dealing with the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak Muivah) (NSCN -IM). Briefing the media after the North Eastern Council (NEC) meeting here Pillai
said: "For the talks with ULFA, we are in the process. We just last week convened
a meeting with the DGP and Chief Secretaries and other officers in Delhi. We are
working out a strategy for dealing with ULFA." The 58th NEC meeting was held in
Guwahati on February 9 to discuss plans for further development and maintaining
of peace in the region. The NEC meeting was convened at the Assam Staff
Administrative
College to study and finalize plans for the development of insurgency-affected
region under the Centre's `Vision 2020' plan. The core issues of the meeting that
was attended by politicians, bureaucrats and state governors, were insurgency,
education and connectivity of the northeastern states. Pillai said that the NSCN
(IM) General Secretary Thuingaleng Muivah has proposed talks in April this year.
He also gave positive signs about having jailed ULFA leaders on the negotiating
table. Pillai, who recently visited Myanmar, had successful talks for their cooperation
in flushing out northeast militants within their territory. "I had useful discussions
with the Myanmar government and they have agreed for a coordinated action on the
Indo- Myanmar border and hope that these operations would be done at the
earliest,"
he added. Besides peace in the region, the core issue of North Eastern Council
meet was implementation of the Vision 2020 plan in the region. Reducing poverty,
improving education standards, road connectivity and bringing the remote areas
of northeast states at par with the rest of the country is what Vision 2020 aims
at. The North East Council has been allocated Rs 73.4 billion for the eleventh
five-year plan. "My proposal was that the eight states should each be given 10
percent of the funds and the rest 20 percent should be with the North East
Secretariat
which could be used to bridge that gap wherever necessary for the common interest,"
said Nephiu Rio, Chief Minister, Nagaland. "Connectivity should be the number
one. We should focus on river, road and rail connectivity. And without the road
connectivity common man cannot benefit," said Assam's Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.
In 1971, the North East Council was fromed by an act of Parliament. And,
successful
execution of development work by the Council has helped bring economic prosperity
to the northeast states. |
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