New Delhi, November 05: Days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assured a delegation from Manipur of replacing the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act with a more humane law, the Centre today said that it would soon constitute a committee to look into the Act.

Laws are required to curb insurgency, but these should be humane.

In line with this thinking, the Government is going to constitute a Committee to look into AFSPA and suggest what should be done, Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil said during the first meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee attached to the ministry.

Patil said the Government was adopting a holistic policy to resolve the problem of insurgency in various parts of the country and also taking simultaneous steps including developmental activities in violence-hit States.

Patil said while the Centre welcomes any group willing to talk to the State or the Union Government, a special emphasis was also being taken in other areas of ensuring social and economic justice to the people of the States affected with insurgency or militancy.

Economic and social justice will have to be done to people.

Better transport and communication facilities will have to be provided to people and their health and education taken care of; Patil was quoted in an official release as saying.

The Home Minister said that employment has to be provided to the unemployed.

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