New Delhi: A meeting of chief ministers of Naxal-hit states will be held in August to discuss the menace which has assumed alarming proportions in some states.
The meeting will discuss threadbare the Naxal problem and finetune plans to tackle the threat posed by the Naxals to internal security, Home Minister P Chidambaram said replying to supplementaries in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
The Home Minister also asked the chief ministers of the affected states to renew their appeal to the Naxal leaders to lay down arms and come to the negotiating table.
The appeal came at the suggestion of Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav, who claimed that he had successfully resolved the problem in some districts in Uttar Pradesh through talks.
The chief ministers will be briefed about the plans drawn up to tackle the Naxal menace, Chidambaram said admitting that the problem has become "intense and grave" in the last two months.
The plans have been prepared in close consultations with the state governments and some strategies, already being used in some states, have been integrated.
Chidambaram said there was no concrete evidence about Naxals getting funds from foreign countries.
The Naxals are able to collect money from within the country using illegal means like looting banks and armouries, and also from tribals who support them, he said.
Chidambaram said the Centre has allocated Rs 1,250 crore to the states for modernisation of the police forces.
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