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Government have taken various measures to counter the threat posed by insurgent groups of the North East region. Besides holding peace dialogue with various insurgent groups, enhancing the capabilities of the State Police and development of socio-economic infrastructure, appropriate institutional mechanism have been built in at district level, at State Hqrs and among the States in the NE region to share actionable intelligence inputs available with the State and Central intelligence agencies and to launch coordinated counter insurgency operations against insurgent groups. The strategy adopted has borne results. The Minister of State for Home, Shri S. Regupathy told the Lok Sabha in a written reply that the overall terrorist violence in the North East declined by about 19% in the year 2004 as compared to the previous year (1081 incidents as compared to 1331). The killings of civilians/Security Forces showed a decrease of 13.4% (505 as compared to 583). The number of persons kidnapped also showed a decline of about 70%.
To another question he said a conference of Chief Ministers of North Eastern States including Sikkim was held at Guwahati under the chairmanship of Union Home Minister last month for reviewing matters relating to internal security, disaster management and development of North Eastern States. For addressing the problem of insurgency in the North Eastern States more effectively, the State Governments were advised, interalia, to consider setting up of Unified Command Structure for counter insurgency operations on the lines of similar structures in Assam and Manipur, to prepare plans for strengthening of Police forces and intelligence set-ups in respective States and to expedite utilization of funds given by Ministry of Home Affairs under the Scheme of Modernization of Police Forces.
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