Jan. 24: The director-general of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Jyoti Kumar Sinha, today lashed out at the state police accusing it of a lack of proper planning and co-ordination.

Sinha was concerned over central forces being ?overused? by different state governments.

He said that it was time that the states, especially those infested by Naxalites, should stop pestering the Centre for increasing the CRPF battalions and try to use its own funds in order to raise their respective special force battalions.

The director-general has also asked the state government to ensure that during recruitment it should ensure that 60 per cent of its candidates should come in from Naxalite hit districts.

Sinha, who was in the capital to attend a CRPF function today, said that he had forwarded a suggestion to the Centre that each state should mark out one or two companies that would act as a ?Striking Force? like the ?Grey Hounds? of Andhra Pradesh.

Speaking at the function, Sinha blamed the state police and the state government for the Jehanabad (Bihar) jailbreak and killing of CRPF personnel at Chatra (Jharkhand) by Naxalites late last year.

?It is because of improper use of the para-military force at the disposal of both the governments that such incidents took place,? he said.

The striking reserve should be used to launch massive operations once in a month but for a maximum of 15 days, and then sent back to the camp for refresher training,? added Sinha.

He admitted that there is a lack of intelligence sharing between the state governments and the CRPF.

This led the CRPF to ask the Union government for permission to raise its own intelligence unit.

The Union government has agreed to set-up the CRPF?s intelligence unit by March.

Officers and jawans in the CRPF intelligence unit will be drawn from the existing battalions.

Though Sinha evaded the question as to whether the state governments were using the services of the CRPF in a proper way, he stated that there was always a much better way to use them.