Bhopal: Chhattisgarh government has undertaken restructuring of police administration in Bastar division in a massive scale to tackle Left-wing extremism in the region more effectively.
The state home department on Monday decided to bring Kanker, Narayanpur and Kondagaon police districts under one deputy inspector general of police for effective policing of the region.
The 2003 batch IPS officer Ratan Lal Dange has been appointed as Kanker DIG, sources in Chhattisgarh police headquarters at Raipur told this newspaper.
Earlier, the state government has created a separate DIG post for Dantewada in south Bastar by appointing senior IPS officer P. Sunder Raj in the post. “More reforms in police administration in Bastar is on cards,” sources added.
The restructuring of Bastar police administration comes in the wake of April 24 strike by Maoists on a CRPF party at Burkapal in south Bastar district of Sukma in which 25 jawans were massacred.
Meanwhile, at a high level meeting, police officials on Sunday night decided that only joint operations comprising district forces of state police and Central paramilitary forces would be conducted against Naxals in the region now.
Survey to be held in naxal stronghold
For the first time in independent India, revenue survey has begun in Abujhmad, a 4,000 sq km forested region extending from south Bastar in Chhattisgarh to Gadchhiroli in Maharasthra, considered the Maoist capital in the country. The local administration of Narayanpur district in south Bastar has asked teams of revenue officials and security personnel to make inroads into Abujhmad to collect data of the area with an objective to launching infrastructure and developmental projects in the region.
