New Delhi, June 2 (ANI): Home Minister of India, P. Chidambaram, recounted here yesterday, some quantitative achievements since he took over the Department of Home Affairs in December 2008.
Chidambaram informed that during his two and a half years in office, the foremost objective was to enhance the capacity of intelligence agencies and of security forces in view of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
"I am happy to report that substantial capacity has been built in the last 30 months," he said.
He said that there has been an increase in the Operational Battalions of the Central Armed Police Forces during the last two and a half years.
"There were 541 Operational Bns of Central Armed Police Forces as on November 30, 2008. As on May 31, 2011, this number stands at 573. Besides, 21 Bns are being raised. The total strength of our Central Armed Police Forces including all ranks is 777,788," said Chidambaram.
"We have built an additional 538 kms of border roads, completed an additional 1,394 kms of border fencing and replaced 652 kms of fencing, and completed an additional 600 kms of flood-lighting," he added.
In terms of weapons and equipment, the Home Minister informed that "we have acquired 54,700 BP jackets, 45,000 AK-series Rifles, 10,949 Assault Rifles, 844 Automatic Grenade Launchers, 2511 Glock pistols, 1036 MP-5 pistols, 750 Thermal Imagers, 6000 Weapon Sights, 2999 Mine and Metal Detectors, 2185 Binoculars/Monoculars, 304 Laser Range Finders, 204 Interceptor boats, 70 armoured troop carriers and 101 mine protected vehicles".
"More weapons and equipment are being acquired," he added.
Regarding the modernization of the State Police Forces, Chidambaram said: "In the last two years, State Police Forces have also taken up modernisation seriously. 528 new Police Stations have been constructed, over 10,000 vehicles have been procured and nearly 30,000 weapons of different kinds have been acquired."
"In 2009-10 and 2010-11, ' 2454.63 crore have been released to the States under the MPF Scheme," he added.
Chidambaram further informed that he has successfully piloted 13 Bills in Parliament and secured their passage after taking over as the Union Home Minister.
"Among them are the National Investigation Agencies Act, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act, the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act and the Land Ports Authority of India Act," he said.ighlights of the Ministry of Home Affairs report card for the month of May 2011 are as follows:
India-US Homeland Security Dialogue was held on May 27 to strengthen the growing strategic partnership between the two countries.
The election process in four States and one Union Territory came to an end with the counting of votes and declaration of results on May 13-14, 2011. At its highest level, 701 companies of Central Armed Police Forces were deployed for the peaceful conduct of elections in West Bengal.
n amount of ' 104.44 crore was released as an advance under the Security Related Expenditure (SRE) scheme to the 8 Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected States of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa and West Bengal for execution of the Work Plan 011-12.
A sum of ' 96 lakh was sanctioned as assistance to 32 beneficiaries at the rate of ' 3 lakh each under the Central scheme of assistance to the victims of terrorist/communal/naxal violence.he interlocutors visited Srinagar and Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir duringay 15-20, 2011 and interacted with a cross-section of the people.
On May 19, 2011, BSNL announced a new special plan called "Paramilitary Plan 99" with a view to provide an exclusive, affordable and dedicated mobile service to the Central Armed Police Forces.
Under the plan, the officer/jawan will be charged ' 99 per month with free talk time of ' 75 and free calls to any two BSNL numbers (landline/mobile) of choice for 20 minutes per day. Some other concessions were also announced. MTNL has also announced that it will adopt the same plan.
On May 6, 2011, approval was given for the creation of 1048 posts for establishment of 3 Recruit Training Schools (RTCs) and 1 Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School (CIJW) in ITBP.
On May 9, 2011, approval was given for the creation of 1528 posts for augmentation of training capacity in 09 STCs, and in the BSF Academy, and for upgradation of two BTCs to STCs.
On May 11, 2011, sanction amounting to ' 2.65 crore was issued for procurement and installation of Single Mode 'S' Transponder on six MI-17 IV helicopters of the BSF.
On May 26, 2011, sanction was issued to raise one Marine Coy in BSF at an estimated cost of ' 43.95 crore.
India-Bangladesh Border: 10 kms of fencing and 15 kms of road works were completed in May 2011 under phase II of the project. 8 kms of fencing were replaced in May 2011 under phase III of the project. Poles for floodlighting were erected on a length of 30 kms and cables were laid on 12 kms stretch in May 2011.
Border Area Development Programme (BADP): An outlay of ' 900 crore has been allotted for the 17 Border States in the budget of 2011-12 under BADP. Annual Action Plan from 8 States, viz. Assam, Gujarat, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim, Tripura and Uttar Pradesh has been received and necessary funds as per allocation will be released. (ANI)
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