DNA reports that the Karnataka Government is set to roll out welfare initiatives
to bring people in Communist
Party of India-Maoist
(CPI-Maoist)-affected
areas to the mainstream,
according to State Home
Ministry sources. “Around
12 villages have been
affected by Naxal activities
and the people living
in those villages need
to be offered facilities—including
connectivity, employment
and security—that will
help them relate to the
mainstream. All government
departments should earmark
10% of their budgets to
the development of villages
marked as Naxal-affected
areas,” Western range
Inspector General of Police
Pratap Reddy said.
State Home Ministry sources said that it was not possible to
tackle a sensitive issue
like Naxal influence on
youth with law and order
machinery and coercive
methods. Instead, all
Government departments,
including sports and youth
affairs, must reach out
to the people in those
areas and launch public
contact programmes. Deputy
commissioners of Mangalore,
Udupi and Chikmagalur
districts will be given
directions to not wait
for the government packages
but to use the available
funding and manpower to
take up welfare initiatives
in Naxal-affected villages.
Villages like Menasinahadya,
Eedu, Navuru, Kuthluru
and Naravi are likely
to get immediate attention,
the sources said. |
