TIA NEWS /New Delhi
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will review the situation in 10 Left Wing Extremism-affected states at a meeting convened here Monday where a holistic review of the situation will be undertaken covering a wide canvas of security and development issues, particularly infrastructure building.
Besides Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana and West Bengal have been invited to attend the meeting, the Union Ministers in charge of ministries of MoRTH, Railways, Civil Aviation, MoRD, Power, New & Renewable Energy and Telecom will also attend.
According to official sources, the Union Government has evolved a multi-pronged strategy centred around security, development and ensuring rights and entitlements of local communities. The Centre has been providing assistance to states in terms of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) battalions, intelligence, training and capacity building of state police forces.
Also Central help is focussing on schemes that support building of infrastructure, specially road, railways and power, they said. Tomorrow’s meeting will focus on devising new strategies to maintain the momentum achieved in 2016, notwithstanding a couple of incidents. Development issues will also be discussed with a view to ensure rapid development of LWE-hit areas.
The day-long meeting will include two sessions to discuss upon operational issues like role of states in CAPF operations, raising and employment of India Reserve (IR) battalions and Special India Reserve Battalion (SIRB), capacity building and Intelligence issues like vacancies in state police forces, capacity building of state intelligence units and other ministry-wise related matters. The meeting will also be attended by the Secretaries of the Central Ministries, Chief Secretaries and DGsP of the LWE affected states.