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BHUBANESWAR: Centre has asked the State Government to prepare profiles of communally sensitive districts and identify areas prone to such tensions basing on the history of religious conversions and reconversions.
The guidelines assume significance in the aftermath of the riots in Kandhamal district which had a history of conversion and reconversion. In its guidelines despatched to the State Government recently, the Centre has asked that a demographic profile of communally sensitive districts should be prepared.
Besides, disputes over land or any other issues which may have a potential for generating communal disputes and tension should be properly assessed, it said. Kandhamal not only had animosity between two communities over the issue of conversion, it also had a long history of dispute over land between the Kandhas and Panas.
The Centre directed that details about these things should be systematically maintained at each police station concerned. The officials in the police stations should keep a close watch on the situation in such areas apart from periodically visiting them for promoting public contact and interface with the civilian population and community leaders. Stating that police stations and posts should be set up in all sensitive and trouble-prone areas, the guidelines maintained that manpower requirements should be realistically assessed. Besides ensuring filling up of all vacancies in police stations, it directed that they should be provided with adequate personnel, weaponry, communication links, equipment for videography, vehicles and these requirements should be reviewed.
As intelligence failure is one of the main reasons for violence, the guidelines maintained that special attention should be given to developing mechanisms for intelligence and information gathering and suitably integrating them with the response mechanism. The intelligence feedback, especially from the ground level, should be effectively made use of by the administration, it said.
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