Notwithstanding the absence of many Chief Ministers at a recent conclave, the Home Ministry has convened yet another conference of State leaders on June 5 to discuss the country’s internal security situation and ways to deal with it.
“The next Chief Ministers’ conference on internal security is proposed to be held on June 5, 2013,” Minister of State for Home R.P.N Singh told Parliament on Tuesday.
The meeting is expected to discuss various issues related to terrorism, internal security threats and measures to counter them besides issues relating to Left Wing Extremism, cross border infiltration, police modernisation and training.
Many Chief Ministers, including those from Congress-ruled States, had kept away from a conference on police reforms convened by Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on April 15.
Chief Ministers of Odisha, Assam, Uttarakhand, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Nagaland had attended the conference besides Governor of Jharkhand and Delhi Lieutenant Governor.
In the June 5 conference, the Centre may try to push for setting up of the controversial anti-terror hub.
Singh said a conference of all State DGPs was also scheduled to be held in September.
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