Govt sanctions Rs 2,079 crore to deal with Naxal challenge
12 Jun 2013 5:45 AM IST
The government has sanctioned fresh funds totalling Rs 2,079 crore to the CRPF and nine naxal-hit states to combat Maoist challenge with a bulk of the money earmarked for the central force.
Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde at his monthly press conference today said of the Rs 2,079 crore an amount of Rs 1,981 crore has been sanctioned to CRPF for bolstering the capabilities of the lead anti-Naxal operations force of the country.
Shinde said the remaining Rs 98.85 crore was released by his ministry as an ‘advance’ fund to the nine states under Security Related Expenditure (SRE).
‘Under the Security Related Expenditure (SRE) Scheme, on May 28 an amount of Rs 9885.46 lakh was released as advance to nine Left Wing Extremism affected states of Andhra Pradesh (Rs 992.61 lakh), Bihar (Rs 1371.66 lakh), Chhattisgarh (Rs 1398 lakh), Jharkhand (Rs 2421.30 lakh) and Madhya Pradesh (Rs 55.75 lakh),’ Shinde said.
The other beneficiary states were Maharashtra (Rs 738.51 lakh), Odisha (Rs 1,780.81 lakh), Uttar Pradesh (Rs 108.82 lakh) and West Bengal (Rs 1,018.73 lakh).
The SRE funds are meant to upgrade and modernise the state security apparatus to combat extremism.
Meanwhile, Shinde rejected Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi’s demand for a ‘white paper’ on internal security and said the government was following a two-pronged strategy of development and offensive action to tackle Naxalism.
On the issue of withdrawal of AFSPA, union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said, ‘Before that (withdrawal of AFSPA), we have to consider all the stake holders’ opinion. AFSPA is not in Kashmir. It is in many other places also.’
AFSPA, which grants special powers to the armed forces, is also in force in some northeastern states besides Jammu and Kashmir.
Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde at his monthly press conference today said of the Rs 2,079 crore an amount of Rs 1,981 crore has been sanctioned to CRPF for bolstering the capabilities of the lead anti-Naxal operations force of the country.
Shinde said the remaining Rs 98.85 crore was released by his ministry as an ‘advance’ fund to the nine states under Security Related Expenditure (SRE).
‘Under the Security Related Expenditure (SRE) Scheme, on May 28 an amount of Rs 9885.46 lakh was released as advance to nine Left Wing Extremism affected states of Andhra Pradesh (Rs 992.61 lakh), Bihar (Rs 1371.66 lakh), Chhattisgarh (Rs 1398 lakh), Jharkhand (Rs 2421.30 lakh) and Madhya Pradesh (Rs 55.75 lakh),’ Shinde said.
The other beneficiary states were Maharashtra (Rs 738.51 lakh), Odisha (Rs 1,780.81 lakh), Uttar Pradesh (Rs 108.82 lakh) and West Bengal (Rs 1,018.73 lakh).
The SRE funds are meant to upgrade and modernise the state security apparatus to combat extremism.
Meanwhile, Shinde rejected Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi’s demand for a ‘white paper’ on internal security and said the government was following a two-pronged strategy of development and offensive action to tackle Naxalism.
On the issue of withdrawal of AFSPA, union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said, ‘Before that (withdrawal of AFSPA), we have to consider all the stake holders’ opinion. AFSPA is not in Kashmir. It is in many other places also.’
AFSPA, which grants special powers to the armed forces, is also in force in some northeastern states besides Jammu and Kashmir.
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