Naxal Policy

Troops of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) have launched an internet tools-based learning centre for school-going children in a Naxal violence affected district of Chhattisgarh, officials said on Sunday.

Maharashtra government's Naxal surrender policy has yielded positive results with 502 Maoists giving up arms in the last 10 years and have been rehabilitated.

The USOF was created under the National Telecom Policy, 1999, for providing access of telecom services to people in rural areas at affordable prices.

The brutal massacre in Chhattisgarh last week has prompted an internal exercise by the Home Ministry that is now seeking to tweak the Centre's policy to tackle the Maoist menace. Two senior Congress leaders were among the 24 killed in an ambush by the Maoists on Saturday last.

It is a familiar pattern. Every attack followed by more forces. The anti-Naxal policy followed by the Centre has shown little imagination or innovation. After every attack, the Centre has reacted with predictable regularity: send in more central forces.

At a meeting called by the Home Ministry on Thursday, the Chief Secretaries and police chiefs of the nine states affected by Naxalism discussed issues related to hostage policy and better development of these areas.

After taking on Home Minister P Chidambaram, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has now trained his guns on Human Resources Minister (HRD) Kapil Sibal. Speaking in Jabalpur, Digvijaya said the HRD Ministry should shift its focus from higher education to developing the school system."The need at the moment is that the HRD ministry should pay mor...

Home Minister P Chidambaram has said he favours a "quiet dialogue in Jammu and Kashmir". The Home Minister admitted there has been an interruption in the process but said  he " has no reservation in talking to our own people."Chidambaram's statement came on a day when there has been fresh violence in Srinagar. Curfew has been imposed in Jammu ...

Congress leader Digvijaya Singh says he stands by the statements he made on NDTV. The All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary was responding to comments made by the Home Minister earlier in the day. Speaking to the Economic Times, Chidambaram had said "Digvijaya Singh is the General Secretary of our party. I have a job to do, and I am...

As the Cabinet Committee on Security meets today on the Home Ministry's proposal for greater assistance from the Army in tackling the Maoists, Home Secretary G K Pillai told NDTV his ministry wants state police to play a key role with assistance from central paramilitary forces.On being asked about his ministry's take on the Army's role in anti-Nax...

In recent weeks, India's strategy in dealing with the Naxals has been in focus after a spate of attacks. On Tuesday, Defence Minister AK Antony met the three service chiefs ahead of a crucial meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security that's likely to discuss the anti-Maoist strategy.

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram met students at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Wednesday. JNU is traditionally a bastion of the Left, whom Chidambaram has often attacked.While talking to students about growing Maoist insurgency, the minister found both support for the government's anti-Maoists policy and protest against its Operatio...

After Congress leader Digvijay Singh wrote a newspaper article attacking the Home Minister, the Congress has warned him not to publicly list his differences on government policy with other party leaders.

In an effort to tackle the threat of Naxalism the government is working on a new policy which offers financial assistance to those who surrender.

The same voices that protested against the land acquisition policy of the government in Nandigram are now raising their voices against the Lalgarh operations.

Troops of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) have launched an internet tools-based learning centre for school-going children in a Naxal violence affected district of Chhattisgarh, officials said on Sunday.

Maharashtra government's Naxal surrender policy has yielded positive results with 502 Maoists giving up arms in the last 10 years and have been rehabilitated.

The USOF was created under the National Telecom Policy, 1999, for providing access of telecom services to people in rural areas at affordable prices.

The brutal massacre in Chhattisgarh last week has prompted an internal exercise by the Home Ministry that is now seeking to tweak the Centre's policy to tackle the Maoist menace. Two senior Congress leaders were among the 24 killed in an ambush by the Maoists on Saturday last.

It is a familiar pattern. Every attack followed by more forces. The anti-Naxal policy followed by the Centre has shown little imagination or innovation. After every attack, the Centre has reacted with predictable regularity: send in more central forces.

At a meeting called by the Home Ministry on Thursday, the Chief Secretaries and police chiefs of the nine states affected by Naxalism discussed issues related to hostage policy and better development of these areas.

After taking on Home Minister P Chidambaram, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has now trained his guns on Human Resources Minister (HRD) Kapil Sibal. Speaking in Jabalpur, Digvijaya said the HRD Ministry should shift its focus from higher education to developing the school system."The need at the moment is that the HRD ministry should pay mor...

Home Minister P Chidambaram has said he favours a "quiet dialogue in Jammu and Kashmir". The Home Minister admitted there has been an interruption in the process but said  he " has no reservation in talking to our own people."Chidambaram's statement came on a day when there has been fresh violence in Srinagar. Curfew has been imposed in Jammu ...

Congress leader Digvijaya Singh says he stands by the statements he made on NDTV. The All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary was responding to comments made by the Home Minister earlier in the day. Speaking to the Economic Times, Chidambaram had said "Digvijaya Singh is the General Secretary of our party. I have a job to do, and I am...

As the Cabinet Committee on Security meets today on the Home Ministry's proposal for greater assistance from the Army in tackling the Maoists, Home Secretary G K Pillai told NDTV his ministry wants state police to play a key role with assistance from central paramilitary forces.On being asked about his ministry's take on the Army's role in anti-Nax...

In recent weeks, India's strategy in dealing with the Naxals has been in focus after a spate of attacks. On Tuesday, Defence Minister AK Antony met the three service chiefs ahead of a crucial meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security that's likely to discuss the anti-Maoist strategy.

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram met students at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Wednesday. JNU is traditionally a bastion of the Left, whom Chidambaram has often attacked.While talking to students about growing Maoist insurgency, the minister found both support for the government's anti-Maoists policy and protest against its Operatio...

After Congress leader Digvijay Singh wrote a newspaper article attacking the Home Minister, the Congress has warned him not to publicly list his differences on government policy with other party leaders.

In an effort to tackle the threat of Naxalism the government is working on a new policy which offers financial assistance to those who surrender.

The same voices that protested against the land acquisition policy of the government in Nandigram are now raising their voices against the Lalgarh operations.