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India is to strengthen its intelligence, vigilance and surveillance systems but this not a knee-jerk reaction to a spate of terror bombings in the country, a top Home Ministry official said on Sept. 18.
"These measures have been in the pipeline since 2005 as part of the police modernisation drive. It's just that they've gained added impetus now," Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta said.
He spoke after Information and Broadcasting Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi had briefed reporters on the deliberations at a special Cabinet meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh chaired in New Delhi late Wednesday to discuss the situation in the wake of the terror bombings in Jaipur, Bangalore, Ahmedabad and New Delhi in which scores were killed and hundreds more injured.
"We are working on various measures to ramp up our preventive mechanism by fine-tuning our intelligence, vigilance and surveillance systems," Gupta said.
"This is a focused scheme for strengthening the Special Branches of the State police forces and ensuring their systematic structuring, which is now lacking. The Central government will provide the States all help in this," the Home Secretary added.
"Considerable work has already been done on this and 6,000 additional posts have already been sanctioned, the bulk of it to create a dedicated mechanism to focus on research and analysis," Gupta said.
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