Guwahati, Jun 2 : The Centre has intensified efforts to restore normality in North Cachar Hills district with home minister P. Chidambaram summoning Assam chief secretary P.C. Sharma and the director-general of police, G.M. Srivastava, to Delhi tomorrow evening to review law and order in the trouble-ridden district.
Chidambaram wants an early end to the continuing violence in NC Hills, according to sources.
The state government’s eagerness to end lawlessness in the hill district is also evident from the arrest of the chief executive member of the district autonomous council, Mohit Hojai, yesterday and its attempt to streamline the functioning of the council.
Hojai who had allegedly paid Rs 1 crore to help an outfit buy weapons, and the liaison officer of the council, R.H. Khan, were remanded in two days’ police custody today by the court of the chief judicial magistrate, Kamrup.
After meeting Chidambaram, the senior Assam officials will be closeted in a meeting with cabinet secretary K.M. Chandrasekhar who on Monday had an hourlong review of the situation through video conferencing with Sharma.
The back-to-back meetings indicate the seriousness of the Centre as well as Dispur to get things back to normal.
There would be zero-tolerance towards those indulging in subversive activities in the district, sources in Dispur said. They said things had started moving after the visit of a team of senior home ministry officials to Haflong on Thursday. It stressed the need to run trains at the earliest by involving army personnel.
Sources said the two officials would not only brief Chidambaram and Chandrase-khar about follow-up measures being taken after the central team’s visit, but would apprise them of the constraints, including shor-tage of security personnel and lack of coordination, in implementing certain suggestions.
“Following the team’s visit, security personnel have been earmarked areas of responsibility. It was also decided to choke the flow of funds to the militants and criminals. Both Delhi and Dispur are working towards a common goal and with an intensity not seen before. The continuation of Chidambaram as home minister has been a big plus point,” a source said.
As part of its measures to bolster security, Dispur will reshuffle the bureaucracy and police in NC Hills.
“Enterprising and upright” officials who will help run the council and some experienced police officers able to add teeth to the law and order machinery, will be posted in the district.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi, who the cabinet authorised last evening to take appropriate steps to restore normality in the district, has made it clear that operations to neutralise the militants will continue and there is no question of ceasefire unless the DHD (J) abjures violence.
and surrenders arms.
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