New Delhi: Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal has held a meeting with the Commissioner of Delhi Police B K Gupta and other senior police officers along with the representatives from the North Eastern states (NES) here recently regarding the problems being faced by students and employees from North Eastern Region (NER) working in the national Capital.
The Commissioner of Delhi Police or a senior officer nominated by him would meet the members of NE community once every quarter, a Manipur Information Centre release said.
Delhi Police will appoint nodal officers consisting of senior police officials, who have worked in the NES and are sensitive to their culture, to interact with NE students and employees, whose problems have not been solved through the normal course.
Contact numbers of such officers will be made available to the members of NE community.
The representatives of NE States will form a formal or an informal body and convey the names, addresses and telephone numbers of such members for interaction with the Delhi Police.
Mr Gupta assured that junior police officers posted in localities having a sizeable NE population would undergo a special sensitisation programme with the help of members from NE community as resource persons.
Ministry of Human Resource Development will write to all the universities located in Delhi requesting them to strengthen their student counselling or welfare cells keeping in mind the cultural sensibilities of the North Eastern people.
The Special Secretary of Ministry of Human Resource Development Ashok Thakur wrote a letter to the Commissioner of Delhi Police on Friday to take necessary action at the earliest on the decisions taken during the meeting and to forward an action taken report to Mr Sibal. (UNI)