AGARTALA, August 2 (TIWN): “We are already taking care and active while the political system is also acting pro actively to thwart any of the such exigencies”, said DIG (BSF) of Tripura Frontier to TIWN last afternoon, when asked on state of preparedness to combat Islamic State (IS) extremists.DIG JB Sahana has said that no worth mentioning direction has been issued to the force to put any special measures in place to tackle the infiltration of IS insurgents from cross border. The DIG has further added that eastern part of India is not that sensitive when it comes to IS terror. Meanwhile, the home ministry has convened a high-level meeting to discuss the threat posed by the terror group IS.

 Attraction to radical ideologies and how to prevent Indian youth from coming under the sway of extremist doctrines would be deliberated threadbare at a high-level meeting.

The meeting, to be chaired by Union home secretary LC Goyal, will formalise a strategy for aiding the government's efforts to neutralise extremist ideologies such as that espoused by IS, which has influenced thousands around the world.

The meeting comes in the backdrop of ISIS kidnapping four Indian teachers in Libya who were returning to India from Tripoli on July 29. Two of those kidnapped were released on Friday.

The meeting is expected to be attended by home secretaries and police officers of around 12 states, including Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka and is expected to formalise a strategy for aiding the government's efforts to neutralise extremist ideologies.

Counter-radicalisation efforts would include counselling of youths, convincing community elders to persuade the younger generation to not get influenced by any extremist ideology, monitoring of social media sites and taking of preventive steps.

Relating to the same, couple of weeks ago IS militants were nabbed from Agartala Airport. And post this incident, a state of utmost alert and security blanket should have had taken over the entire state but no such alert has officially been made public though IG (Police Control) has said: “After the arrests of them we have put both our state and central agencies on alert and we are maintaining strict vigil on the same.”