Naxalism shall be eradicated from Jharkhand by 2018: DGP

by Indukant Dixit Ranchi, Jan 10 (PTI) Naxalism shall be eradicated fromJharkhand by the end of this year, said state Director Generalof P...

by Indukant Dixit Ranchi, Jan 10 (PTI) Naxalism shall be eradicated fromJharkhand by the end of this year, said state Director Generalof Police D K Pandey.

In an interview to PTI, the DGP said that the statepolice in tandem with the civil administration hassuccessfully cleared most of the areas of the statefrom the influence of the left wing Naxalism.

However, the remaining few pockets situated on the borderareas shall be cleared by the end of the year 2018, he said.

The newly carved out state of Jharkhand from Bihar hasbeen a hotbed of red terror.

Pandey said that three years ago 13 focus areas wereidentified all across the state and action plans were preparedto clear them off the menace of naxalism, adding a total of 18security camps were established in these 13 naxal influencedremote areas.

He said, “just a few years back there was a time whenMaoists used to run parallel administration in these areas butwith the help of the civil administration we establishedsecurity camps." Five camps were established in Parasnath (Dholkatta,Maniadih, mb01, mb02 and mb03), four camps in Gumla (Zori,Jamti, Banalat and Kurumgarh), one camp at Chainpur inLohardaga, two camps in Palamau (Tal and Kukukalan) two campsin Bokaro (Chatro Chatti and Jageshwar Bihar) one camp inGudari at Chaibasa and three camps in Latehar (Kumandi,Serendag and Chaupat).

"We used these camps not for only security men but also tofacilitate other men engaged in the developmental and welfareactivities," he said "It has changed the entire scenario and the Naxals haverun away from these areas helping the developmental activitiesto groom," he said.

Developmental works have been taken up and roads,bridges, schools, panchayat bhawans and block offices havebeen built and the people in these areas are very happy, hesaid.

The DGP said that 30 additional security camps areplanned in these 13 focused areas.

These were covered under a host of developmental plans.

They are Chatra Area Action Plan, Parasnath Area ActionPlan, Saranda Action Plan, Saryu Action Development Plan,Banalat Area Action Plan,Giridih-Koderma border area ActionPlan, Dumka-Godda border area Action Plan, Khunti-Chaibasaborder area Action Plan, Khunti-Simdega border area actionplan, Garhwa-Latehar border area Action Plan, Jhumra AreaDevelopment Plan,Jamshedpur (Gudabandha, Dumaria and Musabani)Area Action Plan and Palamau-Chatra border area Action Plan.

These focused Action Plans resulted into the arrest ofover 50 top Naxal commanders in the year 2017 alone and thesearrests included area commanders and above in the ranks of thedifferent left wing guerrilla groups.

The police action has helped reducing the number ofNaxal incidents in the state. Last year there were 167vis-a-vis 172 in 2016 and 178 in 2015, said the DGP.

Pandey said, “In the intensive operations securityforces eliminated 12 top Naxals in 34 police encounters andarrested 558 Naxals including 50 top commanders during theyear 2017 and recovered 36 weapons looted from the police inthe past.” PTI IKD PVRSNS.

This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.

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