Union home secretary not “happy” with host Orissa
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Union home secy not “happy” with host Orissa
BhubaneswarThursday December 28, 2006
Duggal’s statements at the Press conference might please the Government, but his remarks to the senior officials are certainly disheartening.
A.B.Duggal, Union Home Secretary is not very happy with host Orissa. The State Government’s over dependence on Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has irked him. “Central para-military force is a back-up. The real fight has to be from the State police personnel. The State Government should emphasize more on providing fool-proof training to its force,” Duggal is stated to have told a meeting of senior officials of the State. It’s a different matter that Duggal sounded happy about Orissa while speaking to the media.
Any ban on ultra outfits has to be in accordance with the Government’s preparedness to give a tough fight. Though Orissa Government has imposed a blanket ban on left-wing extremists, Duggal observed, lot more needed to be done in terms of equipping the force. And, since the police modernization programme rolled out in 2001, Orissa has not made much progress in comparison with other left-wing extremism affected states. This precisely means, the Centre is not satisfied with the State’s pace of modernizing its force. This also means that the administration over the years has not considered police modernization as a priority subject.
Duggal’s statements at the Press conference might please the Government, but his remarks to the senior officials are certainly disheartening. One such remark is that Orissa is lagging far behind in sending its jawans and police officers for higher and specialized training. The number of police personnel deputed by Orissa for guerilla warfare training is less than fifty annually while the figure is much more in other States. After encountering Naxal threat for more than a decade, the State is yet to form a special training center for its force.
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