New Delhi: The Home Ministry's budget outlay for 2013-14 has seen a six-fold hike in allocation for police modernisation and increase in funds for organisations dealing with terror threats. The outlay under 'police' has been increased from Rs 43,739 crore in the revised budget estimates of the current fiscal to Rs 52,264 crore for 2013-14.
The assistance to states for modernisation of police forces has risen sharply from Rs 300 crore in the revised budget estimates of 2012-13 to Rs 1,847 crore in the budget for 2013-14 presented by Finance Minister P Chidambaram in Parliament on Thursday.
The National Intelligence Grid, which seeks to link intelligence databases to combat terrorism and improve capability to counter threats to internal security, has been allocated Rs 66.50 crore. The grid had been given an outlay of about Rs 11 crore in revised estimate of 2012-13.
The outlay of Intelligence Bureau had been hiked from Rs 1,040.96 crore in the revised estimates to Rs 1,196.58 crore in the 2013-14 budget. The outlay for National Investigation Agency has gone up from Rs 72.7 crore to Rs 103.8 crore.
Assistance for 'Naxal Management' has been increased from Rs 20 crore to Rs 40 crore and assistance to counter-insurgency and anti-terrorist schools from Rs 9 crore to Rs 20.50 crore. The outlay under Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems has been increased from Rs 85 crore in revised budget estimates to Rs 276.25 crore for 2013-14.
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