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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Jairam denied entry into Naxalite-affected Bihar village-Faizan Ahmad

Jairam denied entry into Naxalite-affected Bihar village-Faizan Ahmad

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published Published on Jun 18, 2012   modified Modified on Jun 18, 2012
-The Times of India

Sitamarhi (Bihar): The Sitamarhi district administration on Sunday prevailed upon Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh and persuaded him not to venture into Naxal-dominated areas. 

The minister wanted to visit a village for verification of rural development work there. 

Led by the SP, the district administration asked the minister not to go to Giddha gram panchayat under Runnisaidpur block, 35km from the district headquarters. "We have received reports that landmines have been laid by Maoists on a 3-km stretch of kutcha road leading to the panchayat," the SP told Ramesh as the minister was about to get into his car around 10am. 

Incidentally, over one hundred panchayats of Sitamarhi district have been identified as Naxal-affected. Jairam had expressed his desire to visit some of the affected villages of the districts, following which Giddha's name was suggested to him. 

Jairam, who has visited 30 of the 82 districts listed as Naxal-affected in the country, including three out of 11 in Bihar, told TOI, "This is my first experience when administration has refused to permit me to visit such an area. Once in Malkangiri, my chopper could not land due to lack of arrangement for refueling there while in Saranda, landmines had exploded barely two km away from a place I had visited." He said following the repeated pleas of the SP, he had to cancel his programme. 

Ramesh expressed concern over the shortage of police force and the low number of police stations in Bihar. In Sitamarhi, he said, for the 35 lakh people across 17 blocks, there are only 18 police stations, which are also ill-equipped. "This number should be doubled," he said, adding that "whether it is terrorism or Naxalism, the police have to fight the menace just as it was achieved by Punjab Police". Jairam also met chief minister Nitish Kumar in Patna before leaving for New Delhi.

The Times of India, 18 June, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Jairam-denied-entry-into-Naxalite-affected-Bihar-village/articleshow/14221633.cms


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