ITANAGAR: The security scenario in Arunachal Pradesh is all set for a major change with the Cabinet Committee on Security approving funds for the modernisation of the state police force.
Disclosing this on Friday, home minister Tako Dabi said, "At the initiative of Union home minister P Chidambaram, the committee has sanctioned Rs 138.95 crore to the state for modernisation of the police force. The project will also ensure upgrade of police establishments in the state, including insurgency-affected Tirap and Changlang districts."
He also pledged transparency and fiscal accountability on use of funds for the purpose and hoped that the state's security scenario will be on the right track within 5 to 10 years.
"Once the Trans-Arunachal Highway project gets implemented and all the mega power projects are commissioned, the state will require 15,000 additional security personnel, 58 police stations and 100 police vehicles to maintain law and order", he added.
The minister said the state government has decided to hand over the Sanjay Kumar case to the CBI since the police could not make any headway in the case even after four-and-half-months of Kumar's abduction from Kharsang in Changlang district.
The supervisor of a Kharsang-based coal mine was abducted by a group of four unidentified armed miscreants on November 24 last year. All efforts to trace him haven't yielded any result so far.
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