The Centre on Tuesday informed that it has declared 42 organisations as terrorist organisations and listed their names in the First Schedule of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. The government also mentioned terrorism in India has largely been sponsored from across the border. “The Government has declared 42 organisations as terrorist organisations and listed their names in the First Schedule of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. Terrorism in India has largely been sponsored from across the border,” the Minister of State in the Home Ministry G Kishan Reddy mentioned in written reply to a query on the names of the terrorist organisations active in the nation and the quantity of organisations which have received foreign help.
The minister also shared the numbers of terrorists and persons killed throughout terrorist attacks in the hinterland of the nation and Jammu and Kashmir throughout the final 3 years and the existing year. In Jammu and Kashmir, 257 terrorists have been killed in 2019, 157 in 2019, 221 in 220, and 3 till February 15, 2021. The quantity of persons killed was 39 in 2018 and 2019, 37 in 2020, and 1 till February 15 this year.
The Home Ministry additional mentioned that the government has taken numerous methods in this regard which includes strengthening of legal framework, streamlining of intelligence mechanism, setting up of National Investigation Agency (NIA) for investigation and prosecution of terror connected circumstances. The government, the ministry mentioned, is setting up numerous hubs of National Security Guards (NSG), stepping up border and coastal safety, carrying out modernisation of police forces and working on capacity creating of state police forces to deal with terrorism. “Due to concerted and coordinated efforts of all the stakeholders, terrorism related violence has been contained to a large extent in the country,” Reddy mentioned in his reply in Lok Sabha.
The Home Ministry additional mentioned that the government has taken numerous methods in this regard which includes strengthening of legal framework, streamlining of intelligence mechanism, setting up of National Investigation Agency (NIA) for investigation and prosecution of terror connected circumstances. The government, the ministry mentioned, is setting up numerous hubs of National Security Guards (NSG), stepping up border and coastal safety, carrying out modernisation of police forces and working on capacity creating of state police forces to deal with terrorism. “Due to concerted and coordinated efforts of all the stakeholders, terrorism related violence has been contained to a large extent in the country,” Reddy mentioned in his reply in Lok Sabha.