A excessive stage safety assessment assembly was held in Jammu on Saturday within the wake of the encounter in Rajouri during which tragically 5 safety personnel, together with two captains, misplaced their lives. The assembly that was chaired by Director Normal of Police R R Swain and the Normal Officer Commanding (GOC) of 16 Corps Lieutenant Normal Sandeep Jain mentioned sharing of intelligence and synergy to deal with the resurgence of militancy within the area. Following day Inspector Normal of Police Kashmir, V Ok Birdi, chaired a gathering on the Srinagar District Police Workplace, stressing the pressing must fortify safety measures throughout the metropolis. Intelligence-sharing mechanisms took middle stage as a key weapon in staying forward of the militant threats and prison actions. Of equal significance was the decision to bolster safety surveillance throughout very important institutions and places within the metropolis. The IGP additionally confused on the significance of seamless coordination amongst completely different branches of legislation enforcement to successfully tackle the safety challenges. He urged the cops to maintain shut watch on anti-national and anti-social components, apart from taking stringent motion towards troublemakers and hearsay mongers.
The safety assessment follows the renewed problem of militancy within the union territory, extra so in Jammu. Although general militancy stays at a low ebb, the scenario within the latest previous has taken a troubling flip with successive encounters claiming lives of a number of safety personnel. Nevertheless, this isn’t to low cost the progress made lately. Safety-wise additionally, the scenario has reworked to a big extent for the reason that withdrawal of Article 370 in August 2019. This has occurred incrementally over the interval with violence declining sharply, reaching its lowest final yr. Earlier, an MHA assessment highlighted the progress made in J&Ok in 2022 on financial and safety fronts. The union territory, the report mentioned, witnessed “a 54 p.c discount in terrorist incidents, a 22 p.c drop in recruitment of militants and 84 p.c decline within the deaths of safety forces.” In actual phrases, the militancy associated violence has decreased from 417 incidents in 2018 to 229 in 2021 whereas the variety of slain safety personnel had lowered from 91 in 2018 to 42 in 2021.
The safety forces have killed over 500 militants within the final 4 years, however the militancy continues to pose a formidable problem. The militants have struck recurrently to announce their presence. The predominant targets of their assaults have been civilians together with these belonging to minorities. Because the DGP Swain himself identified on Monday that the battle towards militancy is just not over in Jammu and Kashmir saying battle ends solely when one facet accepts defeat. So, whereas one can’t however acknowledge that Kashmir has come a great distance, the scenario is much from returning to finish normalcy. And to get there, the federal government would want to transcend the safety centric method.
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