Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday directed senior officials of his Ministry to prepare actionable blueprint on key issues giving top priority to internal security, border management and improved Centre-State relations.
During a three-hour-long interaction with senior MHA officials after assuming office, Singh asked them for innovation and out of box ideas for ensuring better co-ordination for maintaining internal security and Centre-State relations.Crucial divisions like Internal Security, Naxal Management, Centre-State, North-East and Jammu and Kashmir have been directed to prepare a roadmap to improve internal security architecture in the next few days.
Minister for State (Home) Kiran Rijuju also assumed office and attended the high level meeting.
During the familiarisation exercise, the new Home Minister asked officials heading different divisions to make individual presentations by next week. 62-year-old Singh told the officials to let him know what kind of intervention he can make for inter-ministerial coordination, sanction of funds and ensuring cooperation of Central and state governments, said official sources.
Singh was briefed about the problems along the international border, like infiltration from Bangladesh and dispute with Pakistan on Sir Creek, and how to resolve them.The Home Minister was also briefed about the left Wing Extremism, which is now considered to be the biggest security challenge for the country, and the areas where the menace is acute and how to plug them.
Sources indicated that Singh sought details on the status of various cases being investigated by National Investigation Agency (NIA). The Ministry officials briefed Singh about the steps being undertaken to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh and conveyed to him that the process is going on smoothly and Telangana will come into existence as per schedule on June 2.
The Home Minister was briefed on activities of various terror outfits, situation in Jammu and Kashmir and northeastern States and how to improve them. Functioning of paramilitary organisations also came up for discussion and officials told him where the eight lakh personnel of the right paramilitary organisations are currently being deployed.