Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah along with the Chief Ministers and Deputy Chief Ministers and other concerned officials of Left Wing Extremism affected states, chairs a review meeting on Left Wing Extremism in New Delhi, on 6th October 2023.
Key highlights of the meeting
- Major successes have been achieved against it in 2022 and 2023. He said that Left Wing Extremism will be completely uprooted in next 2 years.
- As a result of our zero tolerance policy, the lowest level of violence and deaths has been recorded in 2022 in last 4 decades.
- There has been a decline of more than 52 per cent in Left Wing Extremism related violence, 69 per cent in deaths, 72 per cent in security forces deaths and 68 per cent in civilian deaths between 2014 and 2023 compared to the period from 2005 to 2014.
- Vacuum areas have been shrinking since 2019, the government has established 195 new camps of CAPFs, 44 more new camps will be established.
- The deployment of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) against left-wing extremism, rationalization of development and setting up camps in vacuum areas are the priorities of the government.
- There is a need to maintain constant surveillance in the areas liberated from Left Wing Extremism so that this problem does not revive there again.
- There is also a need to monitor that left wing extremists from areas where this problem has been eliminated do not take shelter in other states.
- The government had increased the ex-gratia amount for victims of Left Wing Extremism from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 20 lakh in 2017, now it has been further increased to Rs 40 lakh.
- Special attention is being given to areas like road construction, telecommunication, financial inclusion, skill development and education.
- The Centre government has launched more than 14,000 projects under the Special Central Assistance (SCA) scheme to accelerate development in the districts most affected by Left Wing Extremism.
