SECURITY-CHIDAMBARAM 3 LST

The Home Minister said in 2009, Jammu and Kashmir and the
Northeastern states witnessed the lowest level of incidents
and casualties in many years.

In Jammu and Kashmir, there were 499 incidents while 78
civilians and 64 members of the security forces were killed
and 239 terrorists or militants were neutralised.
"However, since the beginning of this year, there has
been an increase in the number of attempts to infiltrate
militants into India and in the number of encounters on our
side of the border. So far, 16 militants have been killed and
16 more arrested," he said.
Referring to the acute problem of manpower in state
police forces, Chidambaram said there was humongous vacancies
in the sanctioned posts. As on January 1, 2009, there were
1,53,428 vacancies which was expected to dip to 1,38,559 on
March 31 this year.
"In addition, there is Uttar Pradesh where there is a
peculiar situation. In December 2008, Uttar Pradesh had
sanctioned 2,04,021 new posts and I am informed that the
process of recruitment is underway. The vacancy position
reflects a very unsatisfactory state of affairs.
"There is no reason why the states should not press the
accelerator on recruitment and fill the vacancies. In July
2009, we had commended to the states a new, transparent,
technology-driven procedure for recruitment. Only a few states
have adopted or indicated willingness to adopt the new
procedure," he said. PTI ACB
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