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Should the Indian government use armed forces against the naxals/maoists?


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he was alluding to the contrast between the cadre that heads our CRPF v/s who heads paki para forces, going forward from what @ezsasa had shared.
we can give our enemies some credit too where its due. for instance, 'traditionally' the intel-agencies of pakistan as well as some other (even smaller) asian countries have been said to be having an upper hand & 'sly, crafty' minds & novel ways as against our own, particularly the IB.
The fact is any information viewed without proper context is meaningless. In Shitistan, fauj is all pervasive. Nothing moves without their will. There's no way that the Napaki fauj will even risk a parallel paramilitary force that is not under their direct control. Hence rangers being headed by a fauji. Heck, the faujis even head SUARCO, just in case some "bloody civilian" does not get any ideas about launching satellites, when they should be busy painting Ding dong with sabz-e-hilaal. How many staellites have SUARCO launched of late or how many cups have Shitistani cricket team won when they were headed by a fauji?

Regarding the rangers, how many serious operations against a proper well armed enemy have the conducted? Zero, zilch, nada. Same for Frontier constabulary. This is why Napaki fauj is mired in Balochistan and Waziristan. Their rangers and FC turn tail at the first sign of heavily armed opposition. They are good enough for terrorising hapless Mohajirs in Karachi or abducting Baloch and Shias.

India in contrast is completely different beast. How many folks here are aware that the paramilitary forces when initially conceived to be sort of the next step for soldiers and NCOs and jawans retiring from the armed forces? It was believed that they still had a lot to offer and a paramilitary force that was a mix of policemen, ex-jawans and officers would be a perfect foil for the army.

But the politicos and babus, completely torpedoes this idea. Do you know why? It can all be traced back to Nehru and senior Khangi leaders paranoia of the armed forces. The memories of the BIA revolution were fresh and chacha was nothing if not paranoid about a possible coup, since he was chaddi wetting at the thought of Netaji returning to hordes and hordes of his followers This is why INA regiments were NOT integrated with IA, INA bravehearts were left to rot.

Subsequently, the mandate of the paramilitary forces also changed The politicos and the babus believed that having two forces head by sainik would be unfavourable for their health, so first they barred the armed forces personnel from being inducted into paramilitary forces and second, they made sure it was IPS and IAS who controlled these forces. The babus and netas were and remain so paranoid of the armed forces that they truly believe that BSF/CRPF/CISF etc are an insurance against a hypothetical army coup in the future.
 

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Could someone pls explain in very simple words as to why the State is not able to go all-out into the so-called Red Zone ("Dandakaranya Special Zone Committee (DKSZC), of which Bastar division (now divided into seven districts, including Sukma) is a part").
We are able to keep the professionally trained Pak army at bay and even defeat them regularly, but not take on a bunch of half-illiterate monkeys from jungles? Amazing!

If the para-forces are not capable, can we not amend rules, label maoists/naxals as foreign-sponsored enemy agents and send in the Army?
 

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No Indian who has honour, will insult women this casually. I don't know what you call this behaviour though. I on other hand seen this behaviour in many jobless pakis.
On a lighter note..

Looks like you haven't been to Delhi , Punjab, Haryana and UP.

They don't mean what they say. It comes from the tip of their tongue not their hearts.
 

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Ground Report: How Bastar Has Been Preparing For The Final Push Against The Maoists

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On 24 April, Maoist terrorists killed 25 CRPF men in the latest atrocity in Sukma district in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh. Yet, this may be part of the last throes of a failed revolution that has little support anymore from the adivasis it was supposed to liberate. Yes, there is a war on, but the state is winning that war.

Travelling extensively around Bastar, this correspondent saw a remarkable change in mood among the people. I saw hope, I saw aspirations, I saw development that was striking at the roots of the demented Maoist cause.

The land where a lot of blood has been spilled is now nurturing many dreams: farmers wanting to sell their organic produce in faraway cities, children orphaned by Maoists aspiring to become doctors and fashion designers, women widowed by the red terrorists dreaming of becoming entrepreneurs, and a lot more.

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CRPF personnel on patrolling duty at Sukma’s Dornapal area where Monday afternoon’s ambush took place

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CRPF personnel patrolling at Sukma’s Dornapal, the area where Monday afternoon’s ambush took place

There is a silent revolution happening in Bastar, and not what the Maoists had dreamt of. Roads and bridges are being built at a frenetic pace while state-of-the-art healthcare facilities and swanky government-run residential schools and colleges are coming up on the undulating hills of the region. And emerging out of the pernicious shadow of the Maoists, people — almost all of them adivasis — have started to aspire for a normal life like the rest of their countrymen. Bullets are being complemented by development in the fight against the Maoists that the state is winning very decisively.

The state government estimates that in two years’ time, Bastar will be free of Maoists.

Connectivity Is The Key

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh, who has ruled the state since 2003, tells Swarajya that the focus over the past few years has been on physical connectivity. “Once the remotest village is connected by an all-weather road and development reaches that village, the Maoist stranglehold on that village ceases. The road also ensures security for the villagers since it allows easy access for security forces. That is why our attention is now focused on building roads and bridges at a very fast pace,” he explains.

All over Bastar, men and machines are working at a furious pace to lay roads and build bridges, big and small. Yes, at many places, construction teams work under the constant protection of armed policemen and paramilitary forces, but there is now a sense of security among the contractors and workers. “Earlier, no contractor would bid for construction of roads and bridges in Bastar. No one would respond to repeated tenders. But over the past few years, the situation has changed dramatically,” says IAS officer Santosh Mishra who is a top aide to the Chief Minister.

There was, and still exists, a grave warning from Maoists to contractors. “Roads mean easy access for security forces to the remote areas that are the strongholds of the Maoists. The Maoists used to burn road construction equipment, drive away workers, impose penalties on contractors and even abducted many of them. None of us would dare to even bid for a contract till four years ago,” says Shanti Kumar Shukla, a contractor who operates out of Jagdalpur, the Bastar divisional headquarters.

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The Injeram-Bhejji road under construction. It was while patrolling along this road under construction that 25 CRPF men were killed in an ambush by Maoists. Shat Shat Naman our fallen brother, you will be remembered.

Things changed after the state government started providing security cover to construction crews and security forces started pushing back the Maoists. “The situation has also changed and the sense of fear and foreboding that used to prevail is gone,” says Shukla. He bid for the construction of a police station at Lohandiguda, an administrative block in Bastar district that was considered to be a Maoist den. “It is very remote and fearing reprisals from the Maoists, I put up a signboard declaring that the building would house a health centre. Today, Lohandiguda is free of Maoists,” Shukla said.

The prevailing confidence can be judged from the fact that contractors from other states are also throwing their hats in the ring. One of them is Subrata Mandal from faraway Palasi (of Battle of Plassey fame) in West Bengal. Mandal is a sub-contractor engaged in constructing a vital bridge over the Mingachal river that cuts through National Highway 63 connecting Jagdalpur to Bijapur, the eponymous headquarters of the district in Bastar division. “We have 63 labourers and have faced no threat from Maoists,” says Subrata’s brother Subhankar, who is overseeing the works. All of them stay next to a CRPF camp that’s a stone’s throw away.

The 42-kilometre stretch of road from Bhairamgarh to Bijapur used to cut through the favourite hunting ground of the Maoists. The Border Roads Organisation (BRO), under the Ministry of Defence, was engaged in reconstructing this road that was damaged at many places by the Maoists 10 years ago. But repeated threats by the terrorists and as many as 13 IED (Improvised Explosive Device) blasts over four years forced the BRO to abandon the project. Subsequently, paramilitary forces were deployed in strength and seven camps of security forces were set up on this road, thus instilling confidence among contractors. A Hyderabad-based firm has now bagged the contract for re-laying this road now and work is on in full swing.

Till four years ago, driving from Jagdalpur to Bijapur on NH 63 used to take over six hours and was fraught with risks. “We never used to travel on this road after dusk. The Maoists had disrupted many attempts to repair the road and used to plant IEDs under it. There have been many casualties. But now, this road is perfectly safe,” says Bijapur district collector Ayyaj Tamboli. The Maoists try to make their presence felt occasionally by leaving posters along the road. But that, says Tamboli, is all in a day’s work.

Maoist threats and violence haven’t deterred the state government from setting up cell phone towers (albeit inside police stations or camps of paramilitary forces), re-building schools and pushing deeper into Maoist strongholds. Take the case of the road to Bhejji deep inside Maoist territory in Sukma district; it was on this road (under construction) where the 12 CRPF jawans lost their lives on 11 March while they were on a patrol to provide security cover to road construction workers. Soon after the ambush, work resumed at full pace and the road will be ready soon, Sukma district collector Niraj Kumar Bansod told Swarajya.

Tamboli, the administrative head of Bijapur, labelled as one of the worst-affected (by Maoist violence) districts in the country, says the establishment of armed police and paramilitary camps along new roads or those undergoing reconstruction has been a game changer. Bijapur has six CRPF battalions and 3,000 armed state police personnel, which makes the ratio of security forces to civilians a considerable 1:25. “I need just Rs 200 crore and two more battalions of security forces to make the entire district Maoist-free,” he says.

Modern Education Facilities

Along with building roads and bridges that slice through territory where, till very recently, the diktat of the Maoists used to run supreme, the Chhattisgarh government is going on an overdrive building schools with the latest teaching aids that would rival the best of the private schools in India’s megapolises. One such is the Ekalavya Vidyalaya at Bhairamgarh in Bijapur. The co-educational residential school housed in a sprawling two-storeyed building set amidst a 25-acre campus has 233 kids, all adivasis, between classes VI and X. “This school is modelled on the Navodaya Vidyalaya concept. We take in 60 students a year and have all modern facilities, including computer and science labs and libraries,” says school in-charge B R Pal. The new school building and four hostels were built at a cost of Rs 14 crore.

What sets Chhattisgarh apart from many other states in the field of education is that all these government schools are residential ones. “A large percentage of adivasi kids stay in residential schools and get holistic education. Many residential schools that used to be housed in pre-fabricated bamboo structures are being housed in concrete structures now,” says Santosh Mishra. Of the 56,000-odd school going children in Bijapur district, 29,000 stay in hostels. Of the 43,000 school students in Dantewada, 20,000 are in residential schools while more than 20,000 of the 45,000 school kids in Sukma stay in hostels.

But it is not just regular kids whose education is of utmost concern for the Chhattisgarh government. There are many facilities for special kids as well in Bastar. One such is the Saksham Awasi Vidyalaya for children with special needs in Dantewada, a district that had become a Maoist fortress and where many CRPF and police jawans lost their lives. Nearly 210 boys and girls — deaf, mute or otherwise physically challenged — stay in this school. “We have speech therapy and audiometry facilities, games, computers and music classes and many other facilities here. The children attend a regular school outside since we want them to learn with ‘normal’ kids. Before and after their regular school, we have special tuitions for them here to help them with their lessons,” says Saksham’s principal Durga Sahu.

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Physically challenged girls at Saksham Awasi Vidyalaya in Dantewada

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Hearing impaired children at Saksham Awasi Vidyalaya in Dantewada

Aastha Vidya Mandir in Geedam block of Dantewada rings with the playful laughter of more than 918 kids who play, learn and stay in the school’s hostels. This state government-run CBSE school is a special one meant for kids orphaned by Maoists and those hailing from remote areas where school buildings have been destroyed by the terrorists. Most of the kids have heart-rending tales to recount, but are being helped to overcome their deep trauma by their teachers, special therapists and the modern environment they are now growing up in.

The entire campus of Aastha Vidya Mandir, says its principal Santosh Pradhan, is wi-fi enabled. “Kids have fun learning in four smart classes with 4G connectivity. We have computer and science labs, a library with more than 10,000 books, sports facilities, music classes and everything that the best private schools in India can offer,” Pradhan says. A fully residential Skill Development College in Dantewada town offers certificate courses in accounting, computer applications, carpentry, plumbing, masonry, driving and fashion designing to 210 students, most of them adivasis from remote villages of the district. Kritesh Hirwani, the college principal, says that companies from within the state and even outside recruit youngsters from this college.

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Students at the computer lab at Aastha Vidya Mandir, Dantewada

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Students at the computer lab at Aastha Vidya Mandir, Dantewada

The requirements of school dropouts are being addressed in an exemplary manner at Gyanodaya in Sukma. “This is a fully residential facility for kids between six and 12 years who haven’t been to school or who dropped out. We provide them six months’ coaching and then get them admitted in regular schools like the DAV Public School here. The tuition fee in those schools is provided by the government and they get to stay in our hostel,” says nodal officer Ashish Ram. All the kids — 227 were admitted in the last batch — are adivasis.

For bright students, the government provides special facilities. The STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) School at Sukma, for instance, 60 selected students from the district who have passed class VIII are given special coaching through Classes IX and X. This residential facility took in 18 students last year and is planning to increase the intake this year. After passing Class X, these kids will go to Arohan, another residential school in the district that imparts special coaching for the next two years through Classes XI and XII to the bright kids for medical and engineering entrance tests. There are 200 students in Arohan now and last year, a good number passed the entrance tests.

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And then there is the showpiece Education City in Dantewada spread over 100 acres and built at a cost of over Rs 120 crore. The facilities here include Saksham, a residential school for kids with special needs, an Aastha Vidyamandir for kids affected by Maoist violence, a polytechnic college, an industrial training institute, a Kanya Shiksha Parisar (special residential school for meritorious girls from Classes VI to XII), a Model School (on the lines of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya), Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (for girls from poor families), Krida Parisar (special sports coaching school) and other facilities like auditoria, swimming pools, indoor and outdoor stadiums. More than 4,500 students, nearly all of them adivasis, live and study in these institutions.

https://swarajyamag.com/politics/gr...paring-for-the-final-push-against-the-maoists
 

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