01/02/2011
New Delhi, Feb 1 (PTI) The Madhya Pradesh government is keen on enacting a legislation to try in special courts cases against corrupt government officials.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan told a conference on internal security said that the MP Special Court Bill will be introduced in the next session of the state Assembly.
The measure is aimed at quick disposal of corruption cases against public servants and confiscation of property acquired through wrongful means, he said.
Claiming "increased activity" of Maoists in as many as seven districts of state, Chouhan said the Union Home Ministry had not responded to the state''s demand to include these districts in the Security Related Expenditure (SRE).
SRE is a non-plan scheme intended to supplement efforts of the states to deal with naxalite problem.
As of now only Balaghat district in Madhya Pradesh comes under the SRE scheme and 83 other Left Wing Extremist affected districts elsewhere in the country also avail of benefits under this scheme.
Chouhan urged the Centre to expedite the process to approve the MP Terrorist and Disruptive Activities and Organised Crime Control Act-2010, which the state Assembly had passed.
He spoke about the dangers of infiltration, especially people entering Madhya Pradesh from Bangladesh, and said this had taken "demonic proportions in neighbouring states also.
"These illegal entrants somehow declare themselves Bengali speaking nationals and succeed in procuring identity papers to get rights of Indian citizens. This poses a grave danger," he said, adding if these illegal immigrants got the Unique Identity (UID) cards then they will be considered Indian citizens.
"These illegal entrants somehow declare themselves Bengali speaking nationals and succeed in procuring identity papers to get rights of Indian citizens. This poses a grave danger," he said, adding if these illegal immigrants got the Unique Identity (UID) cards then they will be considered Indian citizens.
He also warned of a potential "internal security" scenario arising from "dissatisfied people" in Madhya Pradesh and urged the Centre to send its team to assess the situation arising out of largescale loss of crops.
"Extreme cold has affected crops. This has hit lakhs of farmers who are already facing economic hardship due to spiralling prices. If we fail to provide adequate and immediate aid to them, it will breed dissatisfaction and threaten internal security", he claimed.