Buddha revives commando school idea,writes to PC

Efforts to set up Counter Insurgency and Anti-terrorism schools in Bengal have gone in vain because of the state governments sheer inability in sending a detailed plan to the Centre on the project.

Efforts to set up Counter Insurgency and Anti-terrorism (CIAT) schools in Bengal have gone in vain because of the state governments sheer inability in sending a detailed plan to the Centre on the project.

At present,the state government sends its police personnel to CIAT schools in other states for getting training in commando operation.

It was in 2008 when the Centre decided to set up 20 CIAT schools in five states Assam,Bihar,Jharkhand,Orissa and Chhattisgarh during the 11th Five Year Plan and had earmarked Rs 52 crore for it.

The West Bengal government too expressed its interest and last year the then Home Secretary Ardhendu Sen wrote to Centre expressing the state governments desire to see three such school in Bengal. The state government selected three places for setting up CIAT schools Salua in West Midnapore,Jalpaiguri and Bankura.

The Centre responded and asked the state government to send a detailed plan on the project.

But after the state government failed to send a detailed plan,there was no further action from the Centre.

The Centre didnt respond because we failed to send any detailed plan. Without a detailed plan,the Centre never sanctions projects. It is a failure of the police department because they are the people who prepare the project report, said a senior home department official.

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On May 7,Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee personally wrote to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram requesting him to take urgent measures to set up the schools in Bengal at the earliest.

Now,the state government has taken up the project with a renewed vigour. We received no response from the Centre regarding it,so we are now taking fresh initiatives on this issue, said Home Secretary Samar Ghosh.

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Buddha revives commando school idea,writes to PC

Efforts to set up Counter Insurgency and Anti-terrorism schools in Bengal have gone in vain because of the state governments sheer inability in sending a detailed plan to the Centre on the project.

Efforts to set up Counter Insurgency and Anti-terrorism schools in Bengal have gone in vain because of the state governments sheer inability in sending a detailed plan to the Centre on the project.