Govt for more Centre-state coordination on rail security |
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NEW DELHI: With enhanced terror threat to rail travellers and increasing crimes in trains, UPA government on Wednesday decided to enhance coordination and intelligence-sharing between the Centre and the states and raise an inter-state police team to foil acts of sabotage.
Concerned with increasing Maoist threats, it was also decided to construct a 150-km long road along the railway tracks in the coal belt area of Naxal-affected Jharkhand to enable fast movement of security forces.
A high-powered meeting, called to evolve new methods of ensuring better paasenger security, decided that coordination meetings will be held quarterly between the railways, home ministry as well as between the GM of zonal railways, state home secretaries along with GRP chiefs.
The meeting was attended A K Goyal, member, Railway Board, DG, RPF, Ranjit Sinha, home secretaries of the states, officials from Union home ministry and Intelligence Bureau (IB). They discussed ways to evolve a robust mechanism for ensuring effective security to passengers.
Inter-state police teams will be formed for a group of trains running over the concerned states so that crimes get investigated in a co-ordinated manner.
There will be a special drive to bust organized gangs operating in trains and at railway stations and a better system will be evolved for rail crimes through networking for sharing passenger crime intelligence and special intelligence.
Special arrangements will also be made for security of rail construction projects through mutual agreements between the Railways and the state government.
An action plan to tackle the problem of theft of passengers' belongings and drugging incidents was also discussed under which a committee of four state home secretaries has been constituted. It will submit its report in a month's time on strategies to tackle the problem.
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