How is intelligence gathering being strengthened?
I wouldn’t like to say much about this, but yes about three, four years back we got our unit of the Special Intelligence Branch. The SIB has been constituted by the government to strengthen our Naxal intelligence. It is headed by an ADG (additional director general of police-rank) officer at the moment and we have a DIG (deputy inspector general of police) and SPs of these SRE districts — the Naxal-affected districts. SRE is security related expenditure as the amount spent is partly reimbursed by the Government of India [ Images ]. There are seven SRE districts and the government also sanctions field staff for these SRE districts. What kind of action has been taken against SPOs who have been guilty of committing atrocities against tribals? Cases are registered cases against them. We have also removed them from their jobs. We take both criminal as well as departmental actions against them. What is the effort of addressing the backlog of grievances of the tribals? In our scheme for SRE,
