During its crucial coordination committee meeting on Maoist violence Thursday, the union home ministry will try to impress upon the states hit by left wing extremism the need to achieve proper coordination among their police forces and security personnel to wipe out the four-decade-old menace.
The various states hit by Maoist violence continue to entertain reservations on the police force of a neighbouring state stepping on to their territory without prior information while chasing Naxal guerrillas crossing state boundaries.
This reservation has been hampering the establishment of proper coordination between various states' police and security personnel.
The centre's coordination committee meet to explore ways to resolve this problem would be chaired by Union Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta and attended by chief secretaries and director generals of police of all the Naxal-hit states, besides chiefs of paramilitary forces deployed in various states to fight Maoist violence.
Senior officials from various central ministries and departments will also be participating in the meeting to take a holistic view of the Maoist violence, which the government does not consider a mere law and order problem but a fallout of the lack of socio-economic development in various regions.
The Thursday meet comes close on the heels of two other important meetings on the issue held in Hyderabad and Patna respectively on April 13 and 16.
At the ministry's Task Force meeting in Hyderabad on Moaist violence, the agenda included evolving joint strategies to tackle the Maoists, modernising intelligence gathering and improving inter-state coordination to target Maoist leaders and cadres.
The Hyderabad meeting was followed by another crucial inter-ministerial group (IMG) meeting in Patna to examine the pace of socio-economic development in insurgency-hit regions of Naxal-hit states.
At the coordination committee meet Thursday, the various states will be making presentations about the problems faced by them in countering the Maoist bane.
Besides impressing upon the states the need to finetune the coordination between their security forces, the union home ministry would also be seeking to streamline the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
These will spell out in detail the precise steps two neighbouring states are required to take in case of an attack by Maoists in the regions along the boundary.
At the meeting, the union government is set to impress upon the Bihar and Jharkhand governments to take expeditious developmental measures in their Maoist-infested districts.
Bihar and Jharkhand have been found faltering in both speedy construction of roads and implementing job guarantee schemes in its Maoist-hit affected districts.
The various states hit by Maoist violence continue to entertain reservations on the police force of a neighbouring state stepping on to their territory without prior information while chasing Naxal guerrillas crossing state boundaries.
This reservation has been hampering the establishment of proper coordination between various states' police and security personnel.
The centre's coordination committee meet to explore ways to resolve this problem would be chaired by Union Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta and attended by chief secretaries and director generals of police of all the Naxal-hit states, besides chiefs of paramilitary forces deployed in various states to fight Maoist violence.
Senior officials from various central ministries and departments will also be participating in the meeting to take a holistic view of the Maoist violence, which the government does not consider a mere law and order problem but a fallout of the lack of socio-economic development in various regions.
The Thursday meet comes close on the heels of two other important meetings on the issue held in Hyderabad and Patna respectively on April 13 and 16.
At the ministry's Task Force meeting in Hyderabad on Moaist violence, the agenda included evolving joint strategies to tackle the Maoists, modernising intelligence gathering and improving inter-state coordination to target Maoist leaders and cadres.
The Hyderabad meeting was followed by another crucial inter-ministerial group (IMG) meeting in Patna to examine the pace of socio-economic development in insurgency-hit regions of Naxal-hit states.
At the coordination committee meet Thursday, the various states will be making presentations about the problems faced by them in countering the Maoist bane.
Besides impressing upon the states the need to finetune the coordination between their security forces, the union home ministry would also be seeking to streamline the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
These will spell out in detail the precise steps two neighbouring states are required to take in case of an attack by Maoists in the regions along the boundary.
At the meeting, the union government is set to impress upon the Bihar and Jharkhand governments to take expeditious developmental measures in their Maoist-infested districts.
Bihar and Jharkhand have been found faltering in both speedy construction of roads and implementing job guarantee schemes in its Maoist-hit affected districts.
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