Left Wing Extremism: For First Time in 4 Decades, Number of Deaths of Civilians, Security Forces Brought below 100 in 2022, Says Amit Shah
2 years, 1 month ago

Left Wing Extremism: For First Time in 4 Decades, Number of Deaths of Civilians, Security Forces Brought below 100 in 2022, Says Amit Shah

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Union home and cooperation minister Amit Shah chaired a top-level meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee of Ministry of Home Affairs on Left Wing Extremism, in New Delhi on Tuesday. “Amit Shah said that security as well as accelerated development in Left Wing Extremism-affected areas is the main focus of the Government’s policy under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the government is taking several steps for the all-round development of these areas. The minister said that the opening of Eklavya schools in Left Wing Extremism-affected tribal-dominated blocks has been placed in priority areas since August 2019. Apart from this, in the 90 SRE districts affected by Left Wing Extremism, 4,903 post offices have been opened in the last 8 years to ensure the reachability of post offices within a 3-km radius of every Gram Panchayat, out of which 3,114 post offices have been opened during the last one financial year only.

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