Book of Integration Council New - Ministry of Home Affairs

ackward blocks of the State, by offering attractive packages including capital
subsidy, employment subsidy and power tariff subsidy. In the MSME sector,
special capital subsidy has been extended to Women entrepreneurs and also to
underprivileged sections of the society including the disabled.
5. The State Government is taking steps to start industrial parks and special
economic zones in different regions of the State to create employment
opportunities. Besides this, by implementing special schemes such as, supply of
rice at Re.1 per Kg. provision of grocery items at subsidised price through fair
price shops, distribution of free television sets and gas stoves to the poor family
cardholders, implementation of Anna Village Renaissance Scheme, sanctioning
loans to self-help groups and by the introduction of exclusive schemes to uplift
the minorities and downtrodden, the State Government is ensuring equitable
development of all classes of the people.
6. The activities of fundamental and casteist organisations are being monitored
closely by activating the State police and the intelligence machinery and action
including detention under the National Security Act is being taken wherever
necessary to maintain communal harmony in the State. Peace committees have
been formed in sensitive areas in all the districts and the services fo these
committees are being utilised to defuse any friction between people belonging to
different religions and castes. An Amendment has been made to the preventive
detention Act in the State enabling detention of persons who desecrate or denigrate
the statues of caste leaders and thereby incite caste conflicts.
7. The extremist forces in certain parts of the country are posing threat to
maintenance of the public order, challenging the writs of constitutionally elected
governments. Strengthening the Central and State Intelligence networks, ensuring
effective co-ordination with State police forces, formation of elite polic e groups
exclusively for tackling extremists and terrorist elements in the affected States,
provision of modern weapon systems, protective gear and required logistics to
those groups, creation of inter-state joint task forces to conduct joint operations,
provision of training to the State police at the training centres of Central police
forces and Armed forces including foreign training centres to adopt
latest techniques are some of the enforcement oriented measures to be implemented.
8. Extensive steps have been taken along the coastline of more than thousand
kilometers to prevent intrusion, smuggling by nefarious elements and also to
deny Tamil Nadu coast being used as a base for carrying out their activities. A
chain of check posts have been created along the coastline by diverting one
battalion of Armed Police to take care of the coast line. Our requests for
reimbursement of these expenditures which otherwise should have been incurred
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