Out of 21 CIAT Schools, 15 such Schools fall in the left-wing extremism affected States of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal. Of the total CIAT Schools, three each such schools have been set up in Assam, Bihar and Odisha, followed by four each in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, and one each in Manipur, Nagaland, Tripura and West Bengal.

Under the CIAT School Scheme, the Government of India in the Ministry of Home Affairs funds mainly establishment costs, recurring and equipment up gradation expenditure. The States concerned provide land and administrative support for running the CIAT Schools.

The Union Government has approved four new CIAT Schools in the current financial year 2014-15, to be set up one each in Andhra Pradesh (Seemandhra), Jammu & Kashmir, Maharashtra and Telengana.

The CIAT Schools are intended to provide special training to police and other security forces for combating efficiently modern crimes like insurgency and terrorism, for which the existing training institutes for tackling such menace were inadequate. One hopes that the CIAT Schools would succeed in its mission!

Meanwhile, the National Investigation Agency (NIA), constituted under the NIA Act, 2008, has, so far, set up 35 NIA Special Courts and appointed 80 public prosecutors. A total of 82 cases have been registered by NIA, out of which, charge sheets have been filed in 41 cases and eight cases have resulted in the conviction of 27 accused persons.

The NIA is mandated to collect, collate and analyse counter-terrorism investigation and share inputs with the sister intelligence agencies and law enforcement units both at the Central Government and the State Governments level. It is functioning with its headquarters at New Delhi with branch offices at Guwahati, Hyderabad, Kochi, Lucknow and Mumbai. All Central and State law enforcing agencies including the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) are at its beck and call to assist NIA in tackling insurgency and terrorism. The NIA has overriding authority over all others.