CRPF Personnel Alloted 8800 Houses
The Centre has approved the construction of 8800 new housing complexes to allot residencial facilities to CRPF personnel, Home Minister P. Chidambaram told the media today. This announcement comes on the occasion of the 70th Rising Day of the central paramilitary forces. The centre, according to the minister, has been much concerned with the living conditions of the state officers and hence has “approved 8,826 separate housings for the CRPF personnel.”
CRPF has been currently very much on the front owing to the increased frequency of attacks from separatists, Maoists and terrorists across India. Although the battle is between 7,000-8,000 armed Maoist rebels and 60,000-70,000 security personnel, it is the “incisive, self critical and educative”, enemy armed with sophisticated weaponry that according to the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) chief, A.S. Gill, is the reason why the war has not concluded yet. “They are changing their tactics depending upon what we are doing,” a visibly frustrated Gill told the media.
“We are operating in different terrains and circumstances. For every operation we need specialised training. Specialisation is the need of the hour and for this we have designed exclusive training theatres,” he said.
“For a long time, we did not acknowledge that the Maoists were growing stronger, but there is a greater realisation now. We have changed our tactics and training. Theatre specific training has also been introduced for the first time to enhance specific capabilities in fighting the problems of militancy and insurgency,” he added further when probed about the rising figures of Maoist attacks in the past few months.
Ten new commando battalions are being specially trained to neutralize the growing tactics of the guirellas. Apparently the guirellas have light machine guns (LMG), AK-47s, AK-56s, Insas rifles, satellite phones, modern communication gadgets in their possession. Some of the top rungs have managed to acquire bulletproof jackets.
Not only this, the Maoists have sympathizers among anti-national elements as well mainly in northeastern states and are getting weapons from them. The people in the northeast are getting weapons and money from across the border. They are also in touch with Maoists in Nepal and extorting money from miners to fund their activities.”
CRPF so far has managed to kill 70 terrorists, 56 Maoists and 53 extremists in northeast but have lost atleast 200 security men in the process.
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