Following a directive from Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami today held a meeting with Home Secretaries of all states as part of the government's bid to build a consensus on the proposed bill.
The draft bill largely sticks to the provisions in the 'Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill, 2013' prepared by Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council (NAC).
Those states, which have strongly opposed the bill, were West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha.
This comes even as the Home Ministry is preparang to move ahead with the bill which has been hanging fire for several years.
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The bill proposes to impose duties on the Centre and state governments and their officers to exercise their powers in an impartial and non-discriminatory manner to prevent and control targeted violence, including mass violence against religious or linguistic minorities, SCs and STs.
Some state governments strongly opposed the setting up of such a "supervisory body".