Outgoing Director General of CRPF Dilip Trivedi on Thursday accused the State Governments of not making “serious and concerted efforts” to choke the supply of explosives to insurgents. He also lambasted the bureaucratic exercise of setting up of committees and commissioning studies by professional institutes like Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad, besides corporate human resource firms like Accenture.
Trivedi, who is set to retire from service on Sunday, said, “had systemic problems been addressed at the right time and not allowed to perpetuate, we would have had solutions to many problems... Problems we see in Jammu & Kashmir, North-East or the left Wing Extremism theatre.”
“We have not found any solutions to these problems for the last 60 years and there is so much politics, internal dynamics involved in these and many other such scenarios,” Trivedi told reporters here.He headed CRPF, the world’s biggest paramilitary force, for over 15 months.Trivedi alleged that the lack of effort on the part of the State Governments, specifically, had claimed hundreds of lives of security forces engaged in anti-Naxal operations and counter-insurgency duties.
“Why is it that the explosives have not been stopped from reaching the NaxalsIJ There is free availability of explosives (to Naxals). Why is the state government not doing its jobIJ The DMs and other authorities....They should be doing it,” the 1978-batch Uttar Pradesh cadre IPS officer said.
Trivedi said “it would have been better” if the leakage of explosives had been stopped by State governments and the Explosives Act implemented in full measure. “CRPF and other security forces can be assisted by other agencies in tackling various types of insurgencies and violence, he further said.
“If we can stop the supply of explosives (to Maoists) the level of violence and deaths in lWE areas will go down drastically. Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and explosives are the biggest threat (to the life of security personnel,” he added.