By IANS,
New Delhi : Home Secretary G.K. Pillai Saturday flagged the problem of industry paying money to Maoists to keep themselves away from trouble, and said it perpetuates the problems created by Left-wing extremism.
“Industry is looking at quick profits. We have seen this happening…I am frank in saying that we have seen that 60 or 70 percent of money that Maoists get is coming from industrialist and contractors operating there (Maoism-affected areas) because they are all thinking that ‘I want to run my business and I pay, that is good enough for me’,” Pillai said here.
“You are giving them oxygen, providing money for arms and ammunition for them and then you run into problems. The monster becomes Frankeinstein and you run into problems,” he said at a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) conference here.
Partly blaming lack of governance for the internal security trouble, be it in Jammu and Kashmir or in Maoist affected states, the home secretary also noted that the economic disparities had affected the people, particularly those from rural areas.
He said people wanted a “good life” and hence were looking at ways, even if these were illegal, to make money.
Giving example of the national capital itself, Pillai said 81 per cent of crimes last year in Delhi was committed by first-time offenders.
“These fist-time offenders are in the age group of 16 to 28. They are all looking for what we call good life now. That demographic advantage we have is also creating, in one sense, a security problem,” he said.
Pillai said unlike in the past, people today were not willing to wait and wanted results instantly.
He pointed out to the agitation led by social activist Anna Hazare to buttress the point that such trend would force governments to respond to situations “very, very fast” in the coming years and this would “the real challenge”.