Chhattisgarh was marching ahead into the path of peaceful development. Peace and development would be ensured soon in the Naxal-affected Bastar region as well,” declared Chief Minister Raman Singh on Tuesday. The Chief Minister made the statement while talking to the members of study team from National Defence College, New Delhi, at Mantralaya (Mahanadi Bhavan).
On the occasion, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister N Baijendra Kumar and Principal Secretary Energy Aman Kumar Singh were also present. NDC’s study team paid courtesy visit to Chief Minister on Monday, informed in an official statement issued here on Tuesday. While in conversation with the Chief Minister, the members of study team expressed their interest to know about the public welfare schemes being implemented in Chhattisgarh. Singh informed the members that Chhattisgarh state was marching ahead on the path of peaceful development, free from the curse of backwardness and migration.
Chhattisgarh had emerged as a strong competitor to the developed States of the country. It was true that this new State was facing the challenge of Naxalism, he confided.
When the State was formed in year 2000, the number of police force was way to less. But in recent years, large number of personnel had been recruited in the police force. Moreover, Jungle Warfare College has also been established in Kanker to provide better infrastructure and training facility to the newly-recruited personnel. In Surguja district, the problem of Naxlism was currently under control. Bastar region would also get rid of Naxalism very soon.
During the discussion, Chief Minister answered the queries of the study team on various subjects like poverty eradication, development in State, sports activities, public welfare programmes etc. NDC’s study team consisted members namely Major General PK Malik, Naveen Kumar, ITS Air Commodore S Prabhakar, Brigadier Sandeep Mahajan, Commodore Anil Jose Joseph, Colonel William Douglas Hall from USA, Brigadier PS Behl, Brigadier Sanjay Gupta, Brigadier General Deb Kumar Subedi from Nepal and Brigadier General Mabaaji Abdul Masuya from Tanzania.