The Home Ministry is keen on ensuring that all States have a uniform ‘surrender and rehabilitation’ policy for Naxals/militants who turned themselves in.
This was among the major points Home Minister Rajnath Singh stressed during a meeting of Chief Secretaries and Directors-General of Police of important States, according to K. Vijay Kumar, Senior Security Adviser to the Ministry.
States were implementing different policies now and the latest move aimed at removing the lacunae, he told reporters here on Sunday.
He was in the city to take part in ‘India 2020’ science expo organised by Lead India 2020 Foundation.
The graph of violence had reduced in the country in recent years, thanks to better training and coordination among the security forces and a reduction in the vacancies in State police, which stood at six lakh earlier.
While 2010 was the peak year in terms of violent incidents, now there were just a few sporadic incidents of major violence, he said.
