Rajnath to review Left Wing Extremism

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New Delhi : Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will review the situation in Left Wing Extremism affected States here on May 8, 2017. The Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana and West Bengal have been invited to attend the meeting. A holistic review of the situation will be undertaken covering a wide canvas of security and development issues particularly infrastructure building at the meeting.

The Government of India has a multi-pronged strategy centred around security, development and ensuring rights and entitlements of local communities etc. The Centre has been providing assistance to states in terms of CAPF Battalions, intelligence, training and capacity building of state police forces, according to a PIB release. It is also assisting the states through schemes that support building of infrastructure, specially Road, Railways and Power etc.

The meeting will focus on devising new strategies to maintain the momentum achieved in 2016 notwithstanding a couple of incidents. Development issues will also be discussed with a view to ensure rapid development of LWE affected areas, said the PIB release.

The day-long meeting will include two sessions to discuss operational issues like role of states in Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) Operations, raising and employment of India Reserve (IR) Battalions and Special India Reserve Battalion (SIRB) etc capacity building and intelligence issues like vacancies in state police forces, capacity building of state intelligence units etc.