LOK SABHA
The Lok Sabha was
informed today that there is no proposal to issue a White Paper
on Terrorism in order to check trans-border crime and terrorism.
The Government has adopted a well coordinated and multi-pronged
approach which includes strengthening the border management,
galvanizing the intelligence machinery, neutralizing plans of
terrorist groups by well coordinated intelligence based operations.
From time to time, the Central Government has been sensitizing
the State Governments about threat perception with regard to
the activities of militant groups. The Minister of State for
Home, Shri I.D. Swami told the House in a written reply that
assistance is provided by the Central Government to the States
by way of deployment of para-military forces and release of
funds for modernizing the State Police Forces. 32 militant organizations
have been notified as Terrorist Organisations. Besides, the
Government has set up Joint Working Groups with a number of
countries to counter cross border crime and terrorism.
To another
question he said a Joint Task Force on Intelligence has been
constituted mainly to upgrade the intelligence capabilities
of State Police forces and to co-ordinate the efforts of the
Intelligence Wings of the Central Police Organizations and of
the State Police forces.
