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Projects in naxal hit areas get push

The Maharashtra government has proposed security and development projects in Gadchiroli district

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The Maharashtra government has proposed to implement a slew of development projects and security-related measures on mission mode in the Naxal infested Gadchiroli district in Vidarbha region. The state government will get special assistance from the Centre under the National Policy and Action Plan for these projects.

A state home department official told DNA, “the state will get central assistance for three years between 2017-18 and 2019-20 to effectively implement security-related measures including training assistance for the state police, modernization of state police, the supply of arms equipment like mine detectors, mine-proof vehicles, intra and inter agency sharing of intelligence inputs. The development projects in infrastructure, education, health, skill development and agriculture will get a further boost.’’

The official informed that the objective is to reduce the mismatch between the projects on paper and the on-ground services.

The official said that the government has set up a five-member state-level committee headed by the additional chief secretary of the home department for timely implementation of security and development related measures under the Centre’s special assistance scheme. The district-level committee headed by the district collector will submit various schemes to the state level committee, which will later file detail proposal to the Union Home Ministry from time to time.

The move comes after Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis issued directives in December last year to expedite the development of a number of development projects in Gadchiroli which included a medium irrigation project near Chamorshi, PM Narendra Modi’s housing schemes, rehabilitation of project-affected-people (PAP), digging 11,000 agricultural wells, internet connectivity to gram panchayats and loan waivers. 

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