Jammu and Kashmir government has asked the Centre to formulate a policy soon for the telecom operators for starting pre-paid mobile services in the state which should include stringent action, besides financial penalties for firms not complying with verification process. <br/>A delegation of the state government comprising Chief Secretary S S Kapoor and Director General of Police Kuldeep Khoda had a detailed discussion with officials of the Home Ministry and Department of Telecom recently. During the meeting, chaired by Union Home Secretary G K Pillai, the state maintained that it did not have any issues over the pre-paid ban and they wanted the telecom operators behave in a disciplined manner. <br/>The state government feels that mere imposition of a financial penalty was not helping the security agencies and that a law needs to be formulated under which stringent action could be taken against erring officials, besides imposing a financial burden on the telecom operators. <br/>The Department of Telecom has imposed a penalty of 7.38 crore rupees on the six service providers operating in Jammu and Kashmir from 2008 to November 2009. <br/>