The home department led by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has proposed to enact a stringent law — Maharashtra Protection of Internal Security Act — to deal with the challenges of terrorism, insurgency, communalism and caste violence.
The proposed legislation defines critical assets, critical infrastructure, internal security, public establishment and public safety measures and provides for setting-up of a high-level state internal security committee headed by minister of state for home. It will be the responsibility of the committee to frame guidelines to deal with challenges to internal security, to examine and discuss emerging intelligence inputs pertaining to challenges to the maintenance of internal security, to ensure that necessary resources are marshalled without any loss of time and made available to authorities concerned.
The act entrusts the responsibility on the director general of police to draw an internal security scheme for the entire state and sub-schemes for districts and urban areas, and submit a report for government approval.