Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday expressed confidence that issues relating to National Counter Terrorism Centre, NCTC will be resolved. Talking to media persons in New Delhi, he said that Centre is willing to accommodate States' concern and hope that the differences between some States and the Centre over setting up of the NCTC will be resolved at the meeting of Chief Ministers to be held on the 5th of next month. He also said that before the May 5 meet, the agency's standard operating procedures, SOP will be circulated among all chief ministers.

Mr Chidambaram expressed regret that after five conferences of Chief Ministers, there is still suspicion of Central government. The Minister said that Centre is willing to step back for every step that the State governments will take and accept the responsibility. He said, if State governments are willing to take up more responsibility and raise more forces to fight Maoists in their respective states, then the central paramilitary and police forces can be withdrawn. Mr Chidambaram said the central police forces are an interception force and not for deploying year long.

The Home Minister said that Mordernization of Police Forces, MPF Scheme could not be implemented fully and more than 300 crores rupees were surrendered. He informed that this year under the MPF scheme this year 900 crores rupees have been allocated.
Mr Chidambaram disagreed with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's assessment that the centre was causing distrust with states by its actions. He said a vast number of States have no distrust with the Centre. Asked to comment on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa's comments that the state governments are being reduced to municipal corporations by the centre on financial dependence, Chidambaram said it was the view of one chief minister. He also noted that the chief ministers' conference had nothing to do with the hostage crisis that was playing out in Odisha.