From OutlookIndia.Com
NEW DELHI | JAN 10, 2011
Home Minister P Chidambaram today took stock of anti-Maoist operations and coordination amongst state police and paramilitary officers of Naxal-affected states of the country as he met the top brass of these forces here.
Chidambaram chaired a high-level meet of Directors General and Inspectors General of Operations of states like Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, and chiefs of paramilitary forces like CRPF, BSF, ITBP and SSB.
Issues like joint operations in close coordination of forces along inter-state borders, general synergy, and improvement of living conditions of the force personnel deployed for anti-Naxal operations were discussed in the meeting which lasted for more than four hours at the CRPF headquarters here, sources said.
Logistical arrangement, air support for supplementing troops and casualty evacuation were also said to have been discussed during the meeting.
The Minister was also shown a presentation on the present deployment of security forces and Naxal hotbeds in these states.
The meeting also discussed deployment of additional helicopters -- both government as well as private -- to aid the operations. The effectiveness of Unified Commands structure in some states was also discussed threadbare.
More than 60,000 central paramilitary forces have been assisting the state police forces in these states to undertake counter-Maoist offensives.
The success of the forces in the last few months was largely attributed to the joint coordinated efforts of the police forces of the states as well as the Centre and better intelligence networks.
Naxal violence has claimed the lives of over 10,000 civilians and security personnel in the last five years.
Out of a total of 10,268 casualties between 2005 and May 2010, 2,372 deaths have been reported in 2009 as against 1,769 in 2008 and 1,737 in 2007.
Government has been maintaining that accelerated development and calibrated police action are the two pillars of its anti-Naxal policy.
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