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Imphal, Dec 30: The Union Home Minister, P. Chidambaram said that “Capacity building” and “Containment of violence” were the watch word of the Ministry this year. While presenting the Report Card of the Ministry December, 2011 here today he also said that following the Memorandum of Settlement with UPDS, he is hopeful of more agreements with insurgents groups of the North East will be signed in the coming year.
He said that on December 4, 2011, tripartite talks with NDFB (Progressive) and DHD were held to finalize the Memorandum of Settlement with each of the groups. On December 5, 2011, a tripartite meeting with DHD (J) was held to finalize the Memorandum of Settlement. On December 17, 2011, a tripartite meeting with DHD (Nunisa) was held to finalize the Memorandum of Settlement.
He announced a major decision of the Cabinet taken at its meeting on December 22, 2011. Cabinet gave its in-principle approval for the establishment of a Central Armed Police Forces Institute of Medical Sciences (CAPFIMS), a 500-bed General Hospital, a 300-bed Super Specialty Hospital, a Nursing College and a School of Paramedics. This project, when completed, will fulfill a long-felt need of the Central Armed Police Forces for a world class tertiary medical centre as well as for an assured stream of doctors, nurses and paramedics for induction into the Forces.
Rs.214.16 crore has been released so far to various States against a total allocation of Rs.1,111 crore. Further releases will be made on receipt of Utilisation Certificates for amounts disbursed earlier.
India-China Border: Construction of 23 roads of a total length 700 kms is in progress. During the month, 25 kms of formation works and 13 kms of surfacing works were completed. So far, a total of 462 kms of formation works and 158 kms of surfacing works have been completed.
Border Area Development Programme (BADP): Annual Action Plans have been received from all the 17 States. The total amount released to the 17 States in the current financial year at the end of December 2011 stands at Rs.758.21 crore (84.24% of the total allocation of Rs.900 crore), including Rs.60.91 crore released in December 2011.
Scanning of Population Enumeration schedules has been completed for 14 crore out of the total of 27 crore schedules. The data processing of more than 5 crore schedules has been completed.
Of the 21 Counter Insurgency and Anti-Terrorism (CIAT) Schools sanctioned in the States of Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Manipur, Nagaland, Orissa, Tripura and West Bengal at a cost of Rs.52.40 crore, 4 became operational in 2011 taking the total number of schools that are operational to 17.
2011 witnessed a historic low in the level of violence in the affected States, especially Jammu & Kashmir, the North Eastern States and the LWE affected States.
31 civilians and 33 security personnel lost their lives in Jammu & Kashmir (as against 47 and 69, respectively, in 2010). The containment of violence was helped by the fact that Panchayat elections were held in Jammu & Kashmir after a gap of 23 years.
In the North Eastern States, 69 civilians and 32 security personnel were killed (as against 94 and 20, respectively, in 2010). This trend was also due to the fact that most organisations in the North East are in ‘talks’ mode, including ULFA and NDFB. A tripartite agreement has been entered into with Gorkha Janmukti Morcha and a Memorandum of Settlement has been signed with UPDS.
The level of violence in LWE affected States also declined, although it is still unacceptably high. 447 civilians and 142 security personnel were killed (as against 718 and 285, respectively, in 2010). For example, in November naxals killed 42 persons (38 civilians and 4 security personnel) and in December naxals killed 45 persons (31 civilians and 14 security personnel). The Integrated Action Plan with an outlay of Rs.1,500 crore in 2010-11 and Rs.1,800 crore in 2011-12 was a major innovation. Decentralised decision making, empowering district level officers and quick, time bound implementation of the works have brought development to the villages in the most backward and violence-affected districts of India.
Terrorist Violence is still at an unacceptably high level and every effort will be made to contain violence. Militant groups will be prevailed upon, through a judicious mix of police action and developmental action, to realize the futility of violence and that the only way to resolve differences in a democratic society is through talks.
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