Bastar. As part of the strategy to intensify operations against Maoists in their strongholds, three battalions of more than 3,000 personnel of the Border Security Force (BSF) will go from Odisha to Chhattisgarh and an equal number of units of the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) will go to the strongholds of Naxalism in Chhattisgarh. Will go to the interior areas of Abujhmad.
About 35,000 people live in 237 villages of Abujhmad, a large number of whom are tribals. At present, there is no permanent central or state police base in the area and armed Maoist cadres are said to be coming here from across the Chhattisgarh-Odisha border in the South Bastar region of the state, carrying out their activities and taking training. . The Bastar region includes Dantewada, Sukma and Bijapur to Narayanpur and Kondagaon and Kanker districts. This area is the last bastion where the Maoists have some strength. A senior official said the security forces are increasing their strength here to dismantle the Maoist network and capture the area and create infrastructure so that the state government can start development work.
He said that later two more battalions each of BSF and ITBP would be sent to the Chhattisgarh-Odisha border near South Bastar. Another security official said that the Naxalites are using Chhattisgarh’s Bastar corridor to move to Odisha districts like Malkangiri, Koraput and Kandhamal and hence central forces have been tasked with creating more COBs along the border of these two states. Is.
