{"id":315449,"date":"2019-10-04T14:29:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T14:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315449"},"modified":"2019-10-04T14:29:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T14:29:35","slug":"union-home-minister-amit-shah-chairs-high-level-meeting-on-border-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/union-home-minister-amit-shah-chairs-high-level-meeting-on-border-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Home Minister Amit Shah chairs High Level Meeting on Border Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315450 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/amit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"916\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/amit.jpg 916w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/amit-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/amit-768x399.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/amit-696x362.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/amit-808x420.jpg 808w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" \/>Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday chaired\u00a0High Level Meeting to review the current status of Border Security and measures to be taken to strengthen it further.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shah stressed upon Modi Government\u2019s policy of \u2018Zero Tolerance\u2019 towards terrorism, insurgency, corruption as well as smuggling of weapons, narcotics and cattle. He directed the senior officers to take stringent measures against these practices. The Home Minister also directed the DGs to identify all issues affecting border security and submit a detailed action plan to the Ministry in this regard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Home Minister stressed that it must be ensured that best facilities for housing, health and training are available to the security personnel who are posted on the border. \u201cWe must keep in mind that 130 crore countrymen are safe because of these security personnel on the border\u201d, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The meeting was attended by Home Secretary, Secretary (Border Management), Special Secretary (Internal Security) and Directors General of Border Security Force, Sashastra Seema Bal, Indo-Tibetan Border Police and Assam Rifles, along with other senior officials of the Ministry of Home Affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday chaired\u00a0High Level Meeting to review the current status of Border Security and measures to be taken to strengthen it further. Shah stressed upon Modi Government\u2019s policy of \u2018Zero Tolerance\u2019 towards terrorism, insurgency, corruption as well as smuggling of weapons, narcotics and cattle. He directed the senior officers to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[1194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315451,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315449\/revisions\/315451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}