The home minister said the country was facing serious challenges from left-wing extremism.
Union home minister Rajanath Singh
Vijayawada: The 26th Southern Council Zonal Meet chaired by Union home minister Rajanath Singh here on Saturday decided to create special funds to combat the Maoist menace, and provide central forces to be deployed in the tri-junction touching states of Tamilnadu, Kerala and Karnataka. The home minister said the country was facing serious challenges from left-wing extremism. Coastal security in the southern states should be strengthened. The council meet decided to provide bio-metric cards for fishermen in the southern states. This would help solve disputes even if fishermen crossed the borders.
AP CM Chandrababu Naidu requested the Union minister to provide a high-speed rail corridor for Amaravati-Bengaluru-Hyderabad cities, and an industrial-coastal corridor between Amaravati-Chennai-Vizag cities. The AP government also requested the members in southern council for support to stop the red sanders smuggling. AP and Telangana governments requested the home minister to increase the assembly seats in the delimitation process.
AP requested the home minister to take steps to deploy government functionaries in mandals which were allotted to AP in Khamam district. The council reviewed the progress in implementation of the recommendations made at the previous meeting and discussed issues like coastal security, peninsular region industrial corridor, introduction of peninsular tourism trains in the region, evolving a coordinated and uniform approach in granting industrial incentives, finalisation of inter-state reciprocal transport agreement, curbing use of unacceptable levels of pesticides and ripening agents in fruits and vegetables, maintaining uniform standards in the courses for nursing and allied health services, and setting up of power transmission lines.
AP CM Chandrababu Naidu, Tamilnadu former CM O Pannerselvam, Telangana home minister N Narasimha Reddy, Karnataka home minister G Parameshwara, Puducherry Lt governor Ajay Kumar, Kerala water resources minister PJ Joseph, AP chief secretary IYR Krishna Rao and several officials were present. Four intra state issues were resolved against the total eight pending since last year. According to officials, the next southern council zonal meeting will be held in Tiruvananthapuram in 2016.
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