No Place for Left Wing Extremism in Self-Reliant New India
Recently a meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee on Left Wing Extremism (LWE) was held under the chairmanship of the Union Home Minister.
The Home Minister underlined that the Government’s strategy to deal with Left Wing Extremism is based on three main pillars.
These pillars are as follows-
- A strategy has been adopted to curb extremist violence through a tough approach.
- Emphasis is being laid on establishing better coordination between the Center and the States.
- Weeding out mass support to Left Wing Extremism through people’s participation in development
- This strategy has brought success in controlling Left Wing Extremism in the last eight years.
Following are some examples of this:
- In the year 2022, the number of civilians and security personnel killed in Left Wing Extremism incidents had come down to 98.
- There has been a 76% reduction in violent incidents related to Left Wing Extremism in 2022 as compared to 2010.
- The number of districts most affected by Left Wing Extremism had come down to 30 in 2018. In the year 2021, this figure further reduced to 25.
Left Wing Extremism is known worldwide as Maoism and in India as Naxalism. Naxalism was born in India in the year 1967 in Naxalbari (West Bengal) out of a peasant revolt against the local landlords. Maoist ideology believes in the use of violence and armed insurgency as a means to capture state power.
Initiatives taken in Left Wing Extremism affected areas-
- Under the SAMADHAN strategy short and long term policies are formulated to deal with Left Wing Extremism.
- Eklavya Model Residential Schools have been established to make the children of tribal community literate.
- Security Related Expenditure Plan and Special Infrastructure Plan for the State Police have been launched.
Source – PIB
