Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha – who also holds the Home port folio joined a two-day Chintan Shivir in Surajkund, Haryana on Thursday. He was accompanied by DGP Amitabh Ranjan and Home secretary Saradindu Choudhury.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired the Chintan Shivir with the State Home Ministers on the first day.
According to sources, the two-day Chintan Shivir will focus on cyber issues, drugs trafficking and national security, enhancing conviction rate and border management issues.
The meeting which was addressed by the Home Minister on Thursday would also be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually on Friday, the second day of the event.
The Chief Minister tweeted, “This Chintan Shivir will help in planning a joint plan to deal with cyber crimes, narcotics, cross-border terrorism, other such crimes in across the country.”
Union Home Minister Amit Shah said, taking inspiration from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, this Chintan Shivir, is being organized which will provide a common platform to face challenges before the Nation such as cyber-crime, the spread of narcotics and cross-border terrorism in unison. He said today the nature of crimes is changing and they are becoming borderless, which is why all States will have to battle these by having a common strategy.
The Union Home Minister said that the areas affected by Left Wing Extremism, Jammu and Kashmir and the North East, which were once hot spots of violence and unrest, are now becoming hot spots of development. He said the security situation in the North East has improved significantly in the last eight years and since 2014 there has been a 74 percent reduction in insurgency incidents, 60 percent in casualties amongst security forces and about 90 percent in civilian casualties. Apart from this, efforts have been made to establish lasting peace in the region by signing agreements with the NLFT, Bodo, Bru, Karbi Anglong under which more than 9,000 militants have surrendered
