Centre, states should coordinate to tackle security threats:PM

New Delhi, Feb 7 (PTI) Expressing concern over increase
in infiltration attempts, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
on Sunday said the Centre and the states should launch
coordinated efforts to tackle internal security threats.

Addressing the Chief Ministers' Conference on Internal
Security here, the Prime Minister said hostile groups and
elements operate from across the border to perpetrate
terrorism and Jammu and Kashmir faces the brunt of this.
Identifying left-wing extremism, cross-border terrorism
and insurgency, besides attempts to flare up communal tension
as challenges for internal security, he said the states and
the Centre should work together to tackle such threats.
Singh said fake Indian currency notes (FICN) are being
printed and smuggled from across the border which need to be
tackled with coordinated efforts and recommended the states to
set up nodal agencies for investigating seizure of counterfeit
currency.
The Prime Minister also reaffirmed his earlier stand that
left-wing extremism remains the gravest threat to internal
security.
Earlier, Home Minister P Chidamabaram made a strong pitch
for strengthening state police forces, especially the
intelligence cells and specialised units, to tackle any terror
threat. PTI ACB
AHM


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