Chairs High-Level Meeting On Security, Developmental Projects
Jammu: The Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha chaired a high-level meeting of senior civil, police officials and DCs, SSPs of Jammu Division to review the progress of development projects and security situation in the region.
The meeting was attended by Chief Secretary, Shri Atal Dulloo; DGP, Shri Nalin Prabhat; Principal Secretary, Home, Shri Chandraker Bharti; ADGP (Law & Order) Shri Vijay Kumar; ADGP, Jammu, Shri Anand Jain; ADGP, CID, Shri Nitish Kumar; Principal Secretary to Lieutenant Governor, Shri Mandeep Bhandari; Divisional Commissioner, Jammu, Shri Ramesh Kumar; DIGs, Deputy Commissioners and SSPs of all the districts of Jammu Division.
Opening the meeting, the Lieutenant Governor said that with greater synergy and whole of government approach, our focus should be complete elimination of terrorism and the entire ecosystem supporting them. He told the officers that they should not rest until terrorists are wiped out.
“Exemplary action must be taken against those aiding and abetting the terror ecosystem. Wiping out the terrorism from Jammu Kashmir will be your greatest contribution not only to the security aspect to establish peace but also in the development of J&K and its brighter future,” Lieutenant Governor told the officers.
The Lieutenant Governor also emphasized the need for constant monitoring of project implementation and underlined the importance of speedy infrastructure development.
He directed the Deputy Commissioners to take comprehensive measures for expansion of public outreach programmes and 100% saturation of all government schemes.
Monitoring of saturation of beneficiary-oriented schemes should remain our priority besides implementation of Holistic Agriculture Development Programme and promotion of entrepreneurial schemes like One District One Product that could benefit a large section of the population, he further added.
Last week, as per Union Home Ministry presentation to a parliamentary panel, Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed an over 70 per cent decline in terror-related incidents under the Narendra Modi government since 2019.
Official sources said that while making the presentation, Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan told the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs that despite a decline in terror-related cases in the past five years, threats from militant groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad continued to loom large.
Giving a comparative data, the home ministry officials said that as many as 50 civilians were killed in terror related-incidents in 2019. The casualty figure has come down to 14 so far this year, the sources said.
In 2023, five civilians were killed in terror incidents — almost three times fewer than in 2024.
There were 73 attacks on civilians in 2019 and the figure has come down to 10 so far this year.
The officials said that according to the ministry’s Vision @ 2047 (2024-2029), it wants a safe, harmonious and prosperous India with safe borders and this can be achieved through strong internal security, strong cyberspace, a transparent criminal justice system and prosperous borders.
On attacks on security forces, the ministry said 96 such incidents were reported in 2019.
It rose to 111 in 2020 but, since then, there has been a steady decline and the number of such attacks on security forces fell to 95 in 2021, 65 in 2022, 15 in 2023 and five so far in 2024, the data showed.
About casualties in security forces, the ministry said 77 security personnel were killed in various incidents in 2019.
In 2020, a total of 58 security personnel were killed, 29 in 2021, 26 in 2022, 11 in 2023 and seven so far in 2024.