Union Home Minister (UHM), Amit Shah, on August 22, said that considerable strides have been made in areas affected by Left Wing Extremism (LWE) and in the past three years, 40 new security camps have been established, while 15 more are on the anvil, reports The Hindu. When LWE violence was at its peak in 2009, the number of incidents was 2,258, which decreased to 509 in 2021, he said, adding that this number has rapidly fallen further since 2019. “In 2009, 1,005 people died in militant violence, while in 2021, 147 people were killed... from 96 violent incidents at police stations were reported in 2009, it came down to 46 in 2021,” he detailed. UHM, Shah was speaking in Bhopal at the Central Zonal Council meeting in the presence of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister (CM), Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Uttarakhand CM, Pushkar Singh Dhami. The CMs of other two States that are part of the council, Uttar Pradesh’s Yogi Adityanath and Chhattisgarh’s Bhupesh Singh Baghel attended the meeting virtually.