The Centre reportedly was agreeable to providing four Cheetah helicopters to Chhattisgarh government to tackle Naxal menace in the state.
NEW DELHI: A day after 52 villagers were abducted by Naxals in Dantewada, the Chhattisgarh Government on Wednesday sought several battalions of para-military forces and helicopters to tackle the menace in view of the increased incidents of left-extremism in the state. The Centre reportedly was agreeable to providing four Cheetah helicopters to the state.
At a security review meeting held specifically for the state, top officials of the state including the ‘supercop’ KPS Gill, who took over as security advisor to the state government last week, participated in the meeting and gave their presentation.
Reviewing the security situation at a meeting, convened by Union home secretary V K Duggal, state chief secretary R P Bagai demanded additional security forces and helicopters which could be deployed at various Naxal-sensitive places such as Dantewada.
Chhattisgarh has demanded that the state be provided seven additional battalions for fighting naxalism. For surveillance, evacuation, transportation of troops and other supporting roles, they also demanded helicopters. Models for local intelligence gathering and raising of a special task force on the lines of Andhra Pradesh’s Greyhounds were also discussed.
“We demanded additional support and more helicopters for immediate deployment of forces in remote areas at the time of any naxal attack. The Centre assured to provide all types of assistance,” Bagai said.
Meanwhile, Maoist guerrillas have blasted railway tracks in two different places in Bihar disrupting train services on the busy Patna-Howrah route. Both the incidents took place on Tuesday. In Jamui district, guerrillas damaged a railway building and blasted a portion of the track.
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