Naxal Terror Watch

[ 19 Sep, 2006 2128hrs ISTPTI ]

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NEW DELHI: Ahead of the Congress Chief Ministers’ conclave, Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil on Tuesday reviewed the internal security situation in the country with senior officials in the security establishment.

Officials gave a detailed account of the current situation to Patil who will make a presentation on the security scenario at the two-day Congress Chief Minister’s conclave at Nainital later this week.

With terrorist and Naxal violence posing a major security problem in the country, Patil took stock of the situation so that he can make a detailed presentation at the high-level session where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi will also be present.

Sources in the Home Ministry said that Patil was likely to take the opportunity to ask the Chief Ministers in the party-ruled states to improve the capacity of state police forces to fight terror. He is likely to draw the attention of the Chief Ministers to the fact that many states were slow in even filling up vacancies in the state police and in overhauling the state intelligence machinery.

The Home Ministry has already asked the states to utilise the funds given to them under the head of Security Related Expenditure (SRE).