A day after the Union Cabinet finalised a plan to strengthen Delhi police in the wake of the serial blasts, Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil held a high-level meeting to discuss implementation of measures to be taken in a ‘time-bound’ manner.

The meeting was attended by Lieutenant-Governor Tejinder Khanna, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, Police Commissioner Y S Dadwal and other senior officials from the Home Ministry and Delhi police.

"The basic idea of the meeting was how to implement the decision taken by the Union Cabinet in a time-bound and well-coordinated manner," Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta said after the 90-minute meeting held at Patil's residence.

He said the government was also planning to utilise retired personnel from army and other paramilitary forces to fill the vacant posts in the police force.

The meeting has been convened in the wake of serial bomb blasts in the national capital claiming 24 lives.