By IANS,
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Monday questioned the authenticity and effectiveness of information supplied to states by central intelligence agencies, saying that it comes in the way of combating terrorism than helping.
In her address to the joint meeting of chief ministers and state police chiefs here, Mayawati also questioned the effectiveness of the Sashastra Seema Bal deployed along Uttar Pradesh’s 600-km border with Nepal.
In her speech, which was deemed as read in absentia, Mayawati said: “Intelligence has an important role in tackling terrorism. An impending terror attack can be averted in case specific and actionable and specific intelligence is made available to the state in time.”
“But the intelligence and general alert of routine nature sent by the central government just for the sake of it are useless. Such pieces of information and intelligence rather turn out to be fatal in tackling terrorism as they are neither actionable nor authentic,” said Mayawati.
“I doubt the state governments have ever received any intelligence from the central intelligence agencies, which are specific and actionable,” said Mayawati.
She urged the central government to improve the quality of its intelligence at the earliest.
Mayawati also questioned the efficacy of the SSB, deployed by the union government along the Indo-Nepal border in seven districts of Uttar pradesh, in checking cross-border movement of smugglers and terrorists.
She urged the central government to fund a state government plan of Rs.1,503 crore to secure the border.