Book of Integration Council New - Ministry of Home Affairs

their agencies and forces. They have to discharge these responsibilities by
strengthening their forces, collecting intelligence, taking preventive actions,
punishing the culprits, making good the losses sustained in the disturbance,
by issuing a list of do's and don'ts to the state governments, to deal with
communal problems in a more effective manner, to prepare a scheme to
help the families of the victims to support them when the main persons in
the families are killed, to assist the state governments with forces, intelligence,
equipments and funds for short term, medium term and long term
preparedness to face and counter the menace. The documents giving the
information in greater details relating to these issue are circulated to the
distinguished members of the NIC for their perusal and information.
6. India is a big country of 120 crores of human beings. The Indian people
speak many languages, follow different customs in their lives. They are, by
and large, liberal and tolerant in their attitudes towards others, who do not
lead identical types of lives and do not see eye to eye with one another in
all aspects of existence. They follow the principles of "Anekantwad". They
believe that the goal of life is one and the same. But, the routes that lead to
the goal can and are different and many. It is because of this way of
thinking, the country could be united and freedom from foreign yoke could
be achieved and sovereignty and integrity of the nation could be proteced
and preserved. The uniting forces thus have proved sucessfull upto this
time and may prove to be successful in the future also.
7. However, on occasions, the dividing forces and tendencies, narrow
mindedness, short sightedness, selfishness and parochialism have surfaced
at many places, causing damage to the properties, limbs and lives of the
innocent, unsuspecting, straightforward citizens of the country. At times,
these aberrations have been controlled without agonizing delays. At times,
they have continued for long spells of time, causing enormous damages to
the properties, limbs and lives of many human beings and have left behind
them many festering wounds, which have turned into cesspools of hatred and
vengeance responsible for violence and bad blood between persons at times.
8. The dividing and disturbing forces are the results of narrow mindedness,
ignorance and selfishness. They are unleashed by a few in the society. But,
they have been responsible for enormous unease and fear psychosis in the
lives of peace loving majority of the people.
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