Naxalism in India

Overview

In Chhattisgarh, where 25 personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force were killed by Naxals last month.
Centre will begin work on a ₹11,000-crore project to provide road connectivity to 44 Naxal-affected districts, including Sukma in Chhattisgarh, which had recently witnessed one of the deadliest Maoist attacks.

Details of the aid

11,000-crore project to 44 Naxal-affected districts.
To improve rural road connectivity in the Left Wing Extremism affected districts, under the centrally-sponsored “Road Connectivity Project for LWE Affected Areas” scheme.
Five per cent of the total project cost i.e. ₹550 crore will be kept aside for administrative expenses including for deployment of security forces at strategic locations.
The project will be implemented under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana in the districts that are critical from a security and communication point of view.
There will be construction or upgradation of 5,411 km of roads and 126 bridges.
Out of these 44 districts, the maximum are in Chhattisgarh
Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Maharashtra are the other States that will be covered under the scheme.

Initial Stage

The movement had strong ideological roots in its early phases and was guided by figures like Charu Majumdar, Kondapalli Seetharamaiah, Nagabhushan Patnaik, and others.
The movement’s course and personality altered with time, becoming more cruel and sanguinary.
It nonetheless kept up the appearance that it truly stood with the impoverished and the oppressed, particularly the tribal people.
Maoism still has resonance with some of the more ideologically oriented sections in universities and colleges, albeit it did lose some of the backing of the urban intellectuals.
Dantewada, Bastar, Bijapur, and Sukma are now the primary Maoist activity hotspots in Chhattisgarh.

Recent Naxlism

The taxonomy of Naxalism has undergone significant alterations between the initial phase (1967–1972) and the current Maoist movement.
Today, it has changed into a very regimented, military movement that now prioritises terrorising populations above advancing its ideals.
In a combined operation run by the Special Operations Group of Odisha and the Greyhounds of Andhra Pradesh, the Communist Party of India (Maoist) lost about 30 of its cadres.
Many feel that it signalled the beginning of the Naxalite movement’s decline in the nation.

Various program by Government against Naxalism

Scheme for Special Infrastructure
Operation Green Hunt: Deployment of security forces was done in the naxal-affected areas.
Aspirational Districts Programme
Assistance in community policing and civic action programmes.

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