Organised by the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Conference is attended by Chief Ministers of States and Lt. Governors/ Administrators of Union Territories. Union Ministers for Defence and Finance and MoS in the Home Ministry also attended the Conference.
The Union Minister for Home Affairs Shri P.Chidambaram in his opening remarks gave an overview of the security situation in the country and the progress made on various security related aspects since the last conference. He said that the internal security situation has vastly improved during the last two years largely because of cooperation between the Centre and the State Governments. He further said that naxalism remains a grave challenge and there is no dilution in our two-pronged approach of development and police action to contain this challenge.
India: Chief Ministers’ Conference on Internal Security
Casualties increased for civilians, decreased for security forces
Special Correspondent - 2011-02-01 12:02
New Delhi: The Chief Ministers Conference on Internal Security got underway here this morning. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh inaugurated the Conference, which is the fourth in a row. In his speech, the Prime Minister said that we can note with some satisfaction that the measures for strengthening our capacity to deal with internal security challenges which were initiated post November 2008, are now yielding tangible results. He said that the year 2010 saw a decrease in the number of incidents and casualties of security forces over the previous year. However, the number of casualties among civilian has increased. The Prime Minister emphasized the need for our police officers to be specially sensitive to the problems faced by the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Minorities and women and felt that we need to bring forth changes to make policemen people-friendly.