In 2000, they said, 1,963 insurgency-related incidents had taken place in the Northeast. Also, the death toll of security personnel and civilians was lowest last year when 12 security forces personnel and 37 civilians were killed, they said.



There was no insurgency-related incident reported from Tripura and Mizoram last year. The number of cases of kidnapping or abduction also went down by 40 per cent as 168 incidents were reported in 2016, which came down to 102 last year.

The review meeting was also attended by Minister of State Kiren Rijiju, Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba and other senior officials of the ministry. The review by the home minister comes at time when assembly polls are due in three northeastern states -- Meghalaya, Tripura and Nagaland -- in February-March.