Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday asked the security agencies to prepare a roadmap to strengthen the internal security architecture. He was addressing chiefs of paramilitary and intelligence agencies. The meeting took note of the slow pace of development projects in the internal security affected areas.
At the meeting, attended by National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval, IB Chief Asif Ibrahim, Chief of Research and Analysis Wing Alok Joshi and heads of paramilitary forces, the Home Minister reviewed the security situation and asked them to prepare a blueprint to ensure a good security environment for faster development.
“Development requires good security environment. Government is committed to it,” Singh said at the hour-long meeting.
Rajnath had asked his officials to come up with out of box ideas for internal security and for better coordination between the Centre and States. He had said that the blueprint should also contain ideas to resolve border disputes with neighbouring countries without compromising national interests.
Crucial divisions dealing with internal security, Naxal management, Centre-State, Jammu and Kashmir and Northeast have also been directed to give their inputs in the next few days for this exercise. Singh has already been briefed about the problems along the international border, like infiltration from Bangladesh and dispute with Pakistan on Sir Creek, and ways to resolve them.