Hike in allocation for internal security

The new schemes that today’s Budget provides for include Rs 100 crore for critical infrastructure like roads in extremist affected areas and Rs 210 crore for crime and criminal tracking network and systems. The crime-tracking network envisages automation of police stations, smoother retrieval of information and sharing of information. The Government is keen that funds under this scheme are spent on time and has already sought specific proposals from states, official sources said.

Funds have also been allocated for counter-insurgency and anti-terrorist schools (Rs 12 crore); education, training and research (Rs 47.17 crore) and criminal investigation and vigilance (Rs 35.16 crore). The allocation for works on the Indo-Pak border has nearly doubled to Rs 124 crore.