A central package is in the offing for modernising police forces in Arunachal Pradesh's Tirap and Changlang districts, bordering Nagaland and Myanmar. Home Minister Chidambaram said in Itanagar that his ministry has already sanctioned setting up of more police stations and recruitment of police. Besides, CRPF is being inducted to counter insurgent activities. He was speaking to newsmen after attending a review meeting on security situation of the state.
Chidambaram said, the Arunachal Pradesh government has already started the process of recruitment for 1,526 police personnel for both the districts. Their training process will start from July 2nd. Of the total sanctioned strength, 400 policemen will be promoted from the existing force. The rest will be recruited. He said the state government is undertaking the recruitment process in phased manner.
On the reported turf war between NSCN(IM) and NSCN(K) in both the districts, Chidambaram said the ceasefire agreement with the Naga outfit does not extend to Arunachal Pradesh and the state government can take stern action against the cadres of both the factions.He said if the NSCN factions are fighting among themselves and make people suffer the central forces will take firm action.
Chidambaram also said, there is minimal presence of CPI (Maoist) in the border areas of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. He said state police has been directed to take stern action against CPI (Maoist) cadre.
He appealed to all, particularly the Arunachalees, not to allow the Maoists to create a base in the state. Regarding the frequent boundary skirmishes between the two neighboring states of Assam and Arunachal, the home minister said the matter had already been discussed at Delhi and Justice Tarun Chatterjee has been looking into the matter.
Union Home Minister P.Chidamabaram said that police have been instructed to take firm action against the Maoists or those who have been extending support to them. He hoped that the people would identify the Maoists ultras and reject them. On the issue of boundry dispute between Arunachal and Assam, he said both the Chief Ministers of Assam and Arunachal will be called to Delhi in June. A lot of work has been done in this regard', he said and hoped Justice Chatterjee will resolve the matter.
Replying to a query regarding frequent factional clash between both the groups of NSCN (IM) and NSCN (K) in the insurgency dominated Tirap and Changlang districts, the union minister said, th clash should not happen in Arunachal and police will take action if it happens in this soil. He clarified that there was no cease fire agreement for Arunachal Pradesh, the agreement signed between the Central government and NSCN was for Nagaland only.
