Suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist
(CPI-Maoist)
cadres
killed
a 25-year-old
trainee
Police
constable
in a
crowded
market
place
at Bhansi
town
in Dantewada
District
of Chhattisgarh
on July
3, reports
post.jagran.com.
Jaikumar
Mandavi
was
shot
in the
back
by suspected
Maoists,
dressed
as locals,
in the
village
when
he was
returning
home
after
buying
grocery
with
his
father,
Superintendent
of Police
(SP,
Dantewada)
Narendra
Khare
said.
Mandavi
was
undergoing
training
at Bastar
District's
headquarter
at Jagdalpur
and
had
come
to his
hometown
three
days
ago
on leave,
the
SP said.
Meanwhile, contractors are too scared to bid
for
road
development
projects
in Bastar
region
of Chhattisgarh,
reports
Economic
Times.
Speaking
to Economic
Times,
Road
Transport
secretary
AK Upadhyay
said:
"There
are
issues
in Bastar
region.
Despite
our
best
efforts,
the
State
Government
is unable
to award
projects
of 800
kilometres
in the
region.
We have
decided
to go
to the
ground
level,
interact
with
District-level
officers
and
sort
out
the
issue.
The
main
problem
is that
contractors
are
not
coming
forward
to bid
for
these
projects.
We will
see
if we
can
break
up the
bigger
projects
and
engage
local
contractors
to complete
these
missing
links."
The
Road
Transport
secretary
and
Director-General
(roads)
would
go to
Jagdalpur,
the
District
headquarters
of Bastar
region,
this
month
to address
these
issues. |
