The
state government has chalked out a plan to provide special
training to jawans of police to deal with the Naxalite menace
in Mandla, Balaghat, Seoni, Chhindwara. The police personnel
would visit Guwahati and receive training from experts who
deal with separatist organisations like United Liberation
Front of Assam and Bodo. As Naxalism has created problems
for several states of the country, so also ULFA and BODO are
a menace in Assam. It is for the first time that such an initiative
has been taken in the State for providing special training
to the police personnel. At present some 350 police personnel
of 35th Batallion are being sent to Assam. During the one
and a half month training, these cops would receive training
to deal with emergency situations as also with terrorism and
Naxalism. Later, these personnel would be posted in those
areas of the MP which are worst hit by Naxalism. In turn they
would provide training to the police personnel of their areas.
The State government would then send the second batch of police
personnel for training to Assam. A number of states including
Andhra Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, Maharashtra, Orissa are facing
the scourge of terrorism. Meanwhile, the move of the Central
government to allocate Rs 500 crore for development of infrastructure
in naxal-hit areas is timely. The new scheme aims at providing
critical mobility to the police by upgrading existing roads
and tracks in inaccessible areas and securing camping grounds
and helipads at strategic locations in remote and interior
areas. Through the plan, to be implemented by concerned state
governments, the Centre intends to upgrade and strengthen
approach roads to police stations and outposts where there
is risk of attack by improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and
landmines.
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