Steps to solve this menace of terrorism in India.

The recent bombing in Mumbai has shaken many souls. I am one of the many who has been anguished, angered, frustrated and saddened by this incident. It made me think what I could do to help stop such menace. This motivated me to write this blog.


If not anything else, I can atleast suggest something that according to me is easily achievable in order to find respite from such horrendous activity from again taking place on our soil.


Here, I try to put forth some thoughts in my mind which you may find correct or may sometime find not very right. You are free to comment or add to this.


1) Have street level intelligence... Probably take some inspiration from some bollywood flick like Sarfarosh. It is sometime not all that wrong for policemen to get friendly with local gangsters, of-course such policemen should be monitored, but if such links are effectively used they can be a great source of information. For eg. how the sharp shooter and former Inspector Dayanand Nayak (of Ab tak chappan fame) used his contacts with the Chota Rajan gang to kull so many underworld gang men. Unfortunately such people are debarred from service.


2) Capital punishment to any terrorist. Didn't you listen the last 10 min of the film "A Wednesday"! We kill the rodents that enter our home, but we don’t do the same with the terrorists that enter our nation! Instead we wait for another terrorist to come and take few hostages so that we can release this ba****** back. Stop speaking about "human rights" for these in-human terrorists! Calling these terrorists barbarians also would be an insult to the barbarian tribe!


3) Implement POTA kind of law NOW! Given the current scenario, our policemen don’t even have the rights to detain a terror suspect even if he's sure of his activities, without a proper proof!! Give the police more right to detain terror suspects for interrogation even if sufficient proof is not present. Only after a thorough interrogation can we get some proof!! Common! If your scared of loosing your vote bank by implementing such laws! Then please... That means your assuming that this whole vote bank are terrorists!! Please, no one would be against any law if it’s implemented for the sake of their own protection! And again, how on earth is this gonna affect the so called "human rights"!! It is human right to protect yourself and your nation.


4) Give our men proper weapons! Atlest to protect themselves! Yeah! what could a police constable do in front of a terrorist having an AK 47!! Let alone AK47, even in front of a simple pistol, these men with either a stick(laati) or a the long 2 barrel rifle probably invented by Chinese during the opium war!! Are totally useless!


5) Have a central federal agency which is self regulated and that can work without any interference from the govt! This agency could integrate all information coming out of local and central agencies and help in coordination and communication as well. This should oversee that if a warning is issued by one agency, then appropriate action is taken by the concerned authorities to resolve of find a solution to the issue. This should avoid scenario’s where one agency says “We were not informed” and other says “We had already given a warning, but no action was taken”. For eg take the current Mumbai blasts, the IB says the coastal guards and Maha. Govt were prior intimated about the blasts, but unfortunately no one took it seriously of took actions for it.


6) Another point which is put forth again and again is why have the NSG only located in Delhi? Is it to protect the bloated up fat politicians sitting in Delhi who cannot even run when a dog is chasing them!! Common, it’s the National Security Guard. So place them across the nation from where they can be quickly reach any point of distress.


7) Reward informers for giving useful information! This would definitely be a motivating factor for getting low level common-man intelligence agency activated! This would also motivate the any lazy bugger to get his back side up and go report any suspicious activity taking place. This would have probably also motivated the shopkeeper who now, after the terror all happened tells that some guys bought Rs.50,000 worth of groceries recently from his store. Or the fisher man who now says yes he had strangely seen a few college guys with really heavy bags at the fishing shore. All these men are pointing to the same guys who then went on to create such a havoc! Imagine if this was earlier itself reported and some action was taken!!


8) Every single citizen should also take up the responsibility of being vigilant and report any suspicious activity. Also, in order to make it easy for them, probably start a national online web portal where people can login and give information about any suspicious activities that they come across. Make it traceable so that if someone is giving false details, they could be penalized. NIC is currently doing a good job of building an online infrastructure for the govt of India, but it needs to be extended. An "approachable" Local police would be another place where people could approach in case they have no access to the net!


9) Implement a policy of having Solid background verification process for each and every employee employed by any employing agency. Having a US style of Social Security Number and a 100 point check for every citizen of India, it'll make the task of verification quick, cheap and it is very achievable. Extend the PAN to act as SSN, or something else. But just do it. It’s got many many more great advantages and is surely rewarding.


10) Please please please, my dear politician! Be an Indian! Be responsible. We vote for someone who acts responsible, someone who is ready to listen to what the other party is saying and if logically correct, go ahead and implement it or support in implementing it, NOT to parties who just finding fault in everything that the other party says or does and use it its political speeches!


11) Build more and more political pressure on our neighbors to stop feeding these animals. Be it underworld kingpins or terror outfits. Their sources of income and support system needs to be curtailed, only then there could be some hope for a bright future for us as well as for them.


12) The large corporate I'm sure will be very much willing to come ahead in helping the the defense ministry by giving them resources. Not only Hardware and Software, but also Brainpower. Take ideas for these bright minds too. Terrorists are getting assistance from some brainwashed professionals. Believe me, if the state intelligence also uses this huge brain bank, you never know some great ideas may arise to curtail this menace.


13) Lucky 13, Give permissions to private security agencies to have sophisticated weaponry. If large private agencies are ready to support their securities by themselves, then let them! The govt will have that many less people to worry about. When I enter my office I see the security guard checking my vehicle, but if in case there was a weapon in my vehicle, the guard has no ways of stopping me!


These were my 25 paise of thought. I have no parting thought for this blog, If you’re a person with authority in the government or media reading this blog, then please have a think about it.

Thanks,
Sandesh.